If they ever get to the point of enabling audio folks to run windows audio apps with a low-latency pre-emptible kernel, they'll get big adoption in that world. Right not it's ridiculous how crappy the options are for low latency given how fast our machines are.
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#12How does this work with different versions of Windows? I know a few apps that are broken on Windows 7+ and it would be nice to have a modern OS that can run older Windows apps without having to have that actual OS in a VM.
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#13I just realized - what does the Google vs Oracle ruling mean for ReactOS, and also Wine?
It doesn't mean anything yet because it hasn't been decided :)
But it seems that an Oracle win would mean you couldn't implement any interfaces compatible with another piece of software without a license.
Re: ReactOS
#14If they ever get to the point of enabling audio folks to run windows audio apps with a low-latency pre-emptible kernel, they'll get big adoption in that world. Right not it's ridiculous how crappy the options are for low latency given how fast our machines are.
Does anyone try to shift audio mixing to the GPU and use the audio output of HDMI? I don't know if modern GPUs can take buffers and move them to the audio buffer without going out and back in through PCIe but it seems plausible.
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#15I just realized - what does the Google vs Oracle ruling mean for ReactOS, and also Wine?
It doesn't mean anything yet because it hasn't been decided :) But it seems that an Oracle win would mean you couldn't implement any interfaces compatible with another piece of software without a license.
In practice I don't see too many companies going full on litigious towards small players or end users- especially not Microsoft as many of their moves as of late hinge on interoperability. But it'd be certainly a worry as it'd be very much weaponized when it comes to big companies against each other, which of course will affect the end user one way or another.
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#16Does anybody use ReactOS regularly? What's your experience with it? Very curious to see how far it's come for practical usage.
I set up a VM every year or so to see how things are going. It's still alpha, so it's pretty rough, and a lot of things don't work so well. That said, it's a wonderful project and I will continue to follow it and hope it continues to progress.
For readers unfamiliar with the project: it's been in alpha for 24 years, although it now targets Server 2003/XP instead of Win95 which it originally did in 1996.
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#17Does anybody use ReactOS regularly? What's your experience with it? Very curious to see how far it's come for practical usage.
Every time I’ve tried it, it falls apart within minutes of using it. You’d think after 20 years of development it might be somewhat stable but I guess not.
Re: ReactOS
#18How does this work with different versions of Windows? I know a few apps that are broken on Windows 7+ and it would be nice to have a modern OS that can run older Windows apps without having to have that actual OS in a VM.
Unless they've moved their target, ReactOS was aiming for binary compatibility with Windows XP.
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#19I'm saddened a little bit to see stuff like theming has been built. I was hoping that ReactOS would stick with the Windows 2000 look and feel. I also think that with the limited resources they have, the project team would be better focusing on improving compatibility, over shiny desktop effects.
That said... I firmly believe there is a place for ReactOS. Eventually, XP will fail to run on new hardware, and when that happens a lot of great software will die also. Having ReactOS around means we can continually target new hardware, but still remain XP compatible.
Personally, I view software like I do books. We can read books written 100s of years ago, but we struggle to run 10 year old software. This has to change, else we'll endlessly repeat ourselves rewriting the same programs over and over again.
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#20I just realized - what does the Google vs Oracle ruling mean for ReactOS, and also Wine?
The lack of commercial purpose of ReactOS (and Wine) and it's primary goal of interoperability, plus the fact that it doesn't really damage the value of the original Windows platform, means it's probably a very easy case of fair use.
Android isn't fair use, is a massive commercial endeavour, and has obliterated the value of mobile Java, while breaking interoperability with Java. Oracle winning the case will not be kind to stolen platforms by tech giants.