{"video_id":"VdV8DMtxdzo","title":"You Don't HAVE To Use Windows...","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":326,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":6.16,"text":"Windows macOS or Linux if you use a desktop or laptop computer you're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.56,"end_s":11.12,"text":"probably using one of these three operating systems but did you know that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.639,"end_s":17.039,"text":"they don't have the market completely cornered there are in fact alternatives","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.599,"end_s":19.119,"text":"you can use on your pc right now react","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.039,"end_s":23.359,"text":"os is a good place to start if you're a Windows user and don't want to dive into","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.199,"end_s":28.64,"text":"something completely unfamiliar it started all the way back in 1996 and 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did you know that they don't have the market completely cornered there are in fact alternatives you can use on your pc right now react os is a good place to start if you're a Windows user and don't want to dive into something completely unfamiliar it started all the way back in 1996 and was intended to be a clone of Windows 95 with react referring to how the project was meant to be a reaction to microsoft's market dominance react os looks and feels a lot like Windows and has much of the same functionality many Windows applications run on it without needing extra layers of emulation hold on a minute if it's so much like Windows wouldn't microsoft try and shut it down due to copyright infringement well the folks behind react os avoided running afoul of the law using a technique called clean room reverse engineering basically they're taking the code apart looking at it and then writing their own code which is based on it but not the same one unintended side effect of this approach is that 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much with it so haiku was born yay an open source re-implementation of bos that's still being updated to this day haiku is currently in beta and might not be a bad option if you're looking to accomplish simpler tasks with it there are a number of apps written specifically for it you can download from a dedicated package manager similar to desktop distributions of Linux despite its circa 2000 retro look it can render modern web pages properly if you're looking just to browse the web hardware support is hit or miss but it runs on even low spec systems so it's quite lightweight just like a real haiku to wrap up today's episode we've got freebsd based on the berkeley software distribution that is where they got the bsd from and also the name of my new hippie rock band the original bsd was based on unix a famous os developed in the early 70s that gained popularity due to its portability meaning it could be used on different types of hardware configurations which was uncommon at the time bsd 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