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  • This seems like the sort of project that ai would excel at. /goal excel runs flawlessly.
    by tiahura
  • Well, Excel has AI now, so maybe it can help.
    by actionfromafar
  • It's also the kind of project where LLM license-washing is going to be the most dangerous for the project itself. Projects like Wine and ReactOS have to be extremely careful about what kind of code to accept, because taking code from one of the countless Windows source leaks is just a recipe for legal disaster.
    by TonyTrapp
  • This is a donation reminder for me.
    by fithisux
  • > a new DC21X4 network adapter driver

    Hasn't the point been for the OS to be compatible with the existing Windows drivers?

    by Koshkin
  • Yes, but native open-source drivers are needed for out-of-the-box support, legal compliance, and debugging missing kernel/NDIS APIs during development.
    by jeditobe
  • After the news about the Start Menu, the name briefly had me convinced someone actually rebuilt all of Windows in React Native.
    by prvt
  • It always brings me joy to see ReactOS going places.
    by Telaneo
  • This reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.
    by thataccount
  • It's not only that it was text based, but that it failed in all sorts of ways.

    I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed with all of them. Of course, I wasn't as savvy as I am now, but it's been years since I've seen an issue with a Linux install; although I might have to download and compile a driver for one thing or another, the install itself doesn't fail.

    by forinti
  • Quite the dedication have these people!
    by montroser
  • Love it! Haiku, ReactOS and sure Linux. But if necessary, the real art of computing can be kept up!
    by Aldipower
  • Now all we need is an alternative clean-room implementation of Mac OS.
    by MisterTea
  • One of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver, I wonder if that's the goal for 1.0 is to claim that they've gotten it stable enough to run as though it were Windows 7 or something to that effect.
    by giancarlostoro
  • Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better
    by mysterydip
  • I do a lot of industrial automation and it is the one thing that keeps me boat-anchored to Windows. Every little programmable doodad like signal conditioners and temperature transmitters have their own USB programming cables and their own, mostly crappy windows config software. PLC software is another abomination, hopelessly Windows anchored, bloated GUI monsters, some built on top of Visual Studio (Beckhoff TwinCAT.)

    I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.

    by MisterTea
  • Why not spend some money on an uncensored LLM to reverse engineer or create an open clean room reimplementation?
    by Almondsetat
  • You can forward USB devices into a VM. About 15 years ago I was using a Windows VM on Linux to program PIC18F??? devices with the custom (JTAG based?) programmer provided by Microchip. The upside is that you can preserve and share this windows environment for other coworkers, and have separate VMs for different projects (perhaps one you can update, and one you can't ...)
    by ploxiln