what you doing i'm looking at react os react to this
i thought i never heard of it it's uh open source reverse engineering
of Windows
how have i never heard of this
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this is fun wow fonts look like total garbage i forgot what fonts were like
before what's it called clear view yeah clear clear type sound right
this is horrible react os is a free and
open source operating system for AMD 64 personal computers intended to be binary
compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows server
2003 and later versions of Windows so you can even run drivers that were
designed for Windows and they reverse engineered this thing and somehow it
still exists without microsoft bombing it into oblivion yeah it actually
started back in i think it's 1996 as a
project called free win and i think the first release of rac2s
proper was 1998 and they've been going ever since then it has nothing to do
with like the data leak or anything like that it's it's just straight up reverse engineered so you mean to tell me
they've been at this 24 years
and this is still version
0.4.12 alpha yes
okay well i guess let's see how far they've gotten i mean right off the bat
it looks really weird to me it's kind of like a
combination of Windows 2000 and like uh like a more modern Windows
70 looking like blue gradient thing going on with the
with like the menu bar at the top in fact how do i even
oh weird like firefox looks really different i swear you can run firefox on
anything oh wow it's glitchy already uh
re react os
how do you minimize something is that it's not minimize hey
i know how to use Windows 98 sc suckers i'm going to put my recycle bin over
here because that's what the cool kids do i mean that's what Windows xp did can
we uh can we line up the icons it doesn't work i see that wonderful
holy crap you put halo on it okay i'm sure this is a guided experience what do
you want me to do should i just poke at it first or do you want me to you know why don't we shut this one down and go
through the installation process okay this has a very Windows xp vibe to it
yeah remember when Windows setup looked like that i know right so press enter to
install yep okay enter to continue
yeah it's just telling you that it's an alpha oh it sure is format as butterfest
yeah it actually supports butter fs is that okay can i can i use butterfest
yeah you can use butter reference okay cool why not so it's Linux based then no
no oh right wait what this blows my mind so
this is a completely scratch-built kernel where they're
trying to reverse engineer the Windows kernel yeah
but then you can run butter fs because if you have the source code you can just
pour it in whatever the crap you want basically yeah
in fact they don't fully support ndfs right because ntfs would be like
very very deep you can run it off a RAM disk
like you can just boot so you can it'll just take your os off of your storage
medium throw it all onto the RAM disc and then start it up i actually don't
know i've never tried that that would be so cool
and totally dumb it's totally different it's small enough it could potentially
work they even borrowed things from Windows that are stupid
like the stupid random string of characters after the computer why
why is that there well so if you set up two reactos systems because that's what
you're going to do at exactly the same time yeah with exactly the same name
okay so there's some devices that are missing drivers install automatically oh
couldn't found okay what my computer property managed
hardware device management that's how i used to do it
cool these other devices here can we just go get drivers for them yeah
actually uh since we have a network connection we can just use the app store
the app store the application manager well yeah it's like a
software distribution virtualbox uses the ac97 driver there okay so i can i
just grab that and then what um
top left get it
okay so now we need to go find the driver do you want to know how we do this
can i try and figure it out sure let's figure it out install a driver from a
specific location include this path uh my documents wraps downloads inf next
wait that didn't work why didn't that work
all right you can show me how to do it okay uh well that doesn't seem to work
very often because it doesn't like to actually copy the files that it needs so
what we're going to do is we're just going to copy these then we're going to go
to the c drive under the react os folder not the Windows folder
right and we're going to paste it in here and
that's how we do it it's
not like that for everything okay some things that have installers that put
things in the right place will work but this was just a straight inf and unfortunately
that doesn't work very well here okay so let's go back to the one that you already had kind of set up then okay
ntos kernel.exe yeah
so remember how you said oh is it okay for us to use butter fs yeah sometimes
this happens with butter fast oh but worse things happen with fat 32 trust me
oh so butter fs is the better option yes
okay so we're re-importing the disc because we had that one blue screen and
now it won't boot yes this seems really finicky is it better on bare metal oh no
no no it's still an accomplishment to boot it on bare metal well the thing is
is that when it's working it is really cool it's just that we
happened to run into some issues it's exploring time then right sure have
a look around see what looks familiar what doesn't okay my network places
looks familiar yeah i've got a couple of uh shared drivers oh backslash
oh that's because canadian multilingual oh okay so we need
to change our keyboard uh settings control panel
keyboard hardware properties that's incorrect even on
Windows just let me figure it out okay what you have to reboot to change the
language yeah don't don't reboot what no
oh it just prompt it just asks you if you want to like hey it's chill you just
want to reboot for no reason
maybe click in the white space and hit f5
or right click and refresh or something maybe it wants something samba instead
maybe it wants hostname maybe it wants something not password protected is this
supposed to work um i didn't get it to work
okay that's fine okay so we can look at some of the pre-included applications
right yeah so like accessories administrative tools um i did install a
couple of these so okay solitaire
it's got solitaire wow i'm not actually any good at solitaire i
believe there is actually a method to the madness but i don't know what it is
restart until you have three eighths is showing yeah
yeah if you were able to speed run solitaire that'd be
17 seconds oh that's fine i got that spade i got
that spade hey we making progress boys
watch me freaking win this i'm actually doing pretty well here i wonder if it
has the same win animation well that's actually why i'm doing this
no i'd say this is not just because i don't respect the time of the people
here trying to do their work so i need to get six seven eight and i can reveal
some more cards okay uh am i back in this
dang it i thought i was back in it and i wasn't
oh wow everything just like stacks up along the bottom it's been a while since
i've seen that okay games wine mine
look i know how to play this game
smh s-u-h what s-u-h nothin
oh crap i'm stuck okay there's a way to figure this out
this one and this one
okay all right what else we got programs
winrar runs yep that's sweet vlc no way
a character map okay
hey this word no it doesn't scroll so it has a sideways scrolling bar but it
doesn't do anything
all right what what did you expect
what indeed so we tried to put our secondary steam
drive onto our clean one that does boot
and now it doesn't
okay so we have this other one what's reactive us blank that's the one you
installed so it's a blank blank slate
okay all right well we've abandoned the cooking show strategy where the cake is
actually pre-baked and we're now on the os that i installed at the beginning of
the video yeah um
right i need to install the guest additions which you can do it's straight
up the Windows guest editions so i'm just gonna go ahead and do that what Anthony's also doing is mounting one of
our network shares as a drive in the vm using oracle virtualbox um so we're
going to finally address that halo folder that was on the desktop of the
ones that he had pre-prepared
assuming come on i just want to do the halo thing i
should have just done it right away because i was like oh i'll save that for
last this was working this was all working they all saw it was
working seconds ago all of this was
can i get into regular mode no it's gone now
i did nothing to it i restarted it that's it i'm getting frustrated now and
i'm the apologist for this thing hey which one is this
this is the new one that i just reimported so it is set up it has the
hand i want to play halo okay
oh i i know what's going on for the sake of
everyone's sanity i haven't scaled
oh
so why does that help people's sanity so they can actually see what's on the
screen instead of all like having everything super small it helps the editing team sanity
anyway oh their sanity not the viewers sanity well i mean it could be theirs
too you know if the viewers cared about the editing
oh wow yeah the mouse is a little on the broken side yeah that might be fixable
uh how uh just like a full screen setting yeah it's like a thing well it's
like that now yeah okay now it's up in the top left corner but hey it's
playable oh wait no i can't i
i can't turn past that point
um okay must go only forward to be clear
the mouse thing is only because this is a vm okay well it runs
it's not the newest game or anything but it ran which is i guess impressive
that's a directx game running on not Windows
everything else about the experience is absolutely horrible and i'll be floored
if these guys ever get out of alpha because Linux has made so much progress
on gaming and is infinitely better than
this in every other possible way to the point where it's infinitely better in
now every way but hey cool
um i'm glad i tried it i can't believe i've never heard of it and i can't
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i mean no offense like it's super cool
that you got even this far but i mean academically it's pretty good and they
have been updating the wine staff as well so that's part of the reason why
wine has gotten so good it's just kind of crazy it's just like you wouldn't
actually use it that's all no