"Distros" pretty much only exist because Linux and the other Unix clones were never designed to be a complete desktop system. Instead of unifying to make their desktop better, they compete and make dozens of different standards (recently snap, flatpack, etc.) A complete Windows clone woul...

React OS now PROMISES the same as Linux OFFERS.

larson9999 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:55 pm I did some reading and see this. I'll get one. I guess the latitudes I have aren't close enough.

Dell Latitude D531

Just ordered. I'll post how it goes.

Best thing you could do is to get a minimal linux (tinycore for example) and get all of your hardware working, then install QEMU, setup a VM and install ReactOS on it, it will run with the best tested hardware set which is the virtualized by QEMU, that means much less probabilities to get BSODs due...

Okey, but there are some handicaps with ReactOS in real hardware, the most inherent of them is the fact ReactOS is able to use only one core at any time, this is a disadvantage when you have a powerful cpu multicore and it will be useless, these power is wasted and you won't be able to get all the ...

ReactOS is NOT stable at all. It still has Alpha status - so lower your expectations. Sad but true. Basically, it is being built now. However, go and have a look at the Epic Wins thread and you'll see what it can do on a VM and on real hardware. As I stated, I've been following this project since t...

I should mention, I'm only interested in running alternate OSs on real hardware. I figure there are enough people running on VMs. I've been around since the early days when the project had a different name, so I've checked out various threads in the forums. I'd just never seen a 'just works' configu...

I did some reading and see this. I'll get one. I guess the latitudes I have aren't close enough.

Dell Latitude D531

I follow a few other alternative OSs. There exists for most of them some hardware configuration such that most things I consider essential work and crash frequency is measured in hours. For instance, I currently have laptops which more or less work and are stable enough running AROS, MenuetOS, and H...

Due to lack of time, my try of 0.4.13 has come to an end. Installed and tested quite a few programs from the reactos app store, most of which were more stable than my attempts to install previous versions ros on real hw. USB mouse worked well. Blockers for me include: 1. Locking up when trying to in...

This is reactos 0.4.13 release.

Seems to have installed ok. I managed to make this post after installing just one driver from Dell's site, the ethernet driver. Then installed opera and am able to make this post. We'll see how much I can get running. So far no crashes.

I've installed 0.4.12 on this same machine. This time it's quite a bit less stable. By this I mean the machine locks up every time I try to install a driver with SDI.

Update: I reinstalled 0.4.11 and stayed away from usb and it's much more stable. The main crash I get now is for tcpip.sys, i think, typically when downloading large files. I'll keep using it though. I think I'll consider reactos ready for this machine as soon as these issues are addressed regardles...

Yes, that was one of the points of the post. It's getting close enough that I think it might be ready for the masses before I die. Couldn't say that until now :) I should note that since this post I added all of the Libraries in the application manager and upon reboot bsod. All of the f8 boot option...