MandelbrotOS VS reactos

It's not as hard as people make it out to be. It's taken me a year or so of stupidity to write an OS that has the ability to load programs and all sorts of fun stuff (Not complete and whatever but it's something): https://github.com/MandelbrotOS/MandelbrotOS

Some do write OSes based on the Linux kernel, although I find the vast majority don't. But a large group will strive for POSIX compliancy so they get code compatibility but not binary compatibility. I suggest you do some much simpler stuff in C before you write an OS. I learned C by writing OSes and it was a really bad idea. Learn C and it's quirks before doing an OS. Some sauce to peak at (very bad)

It’s probs ok. I have all the ASM working already. https://github.com/MandelbrotOS/MandelbrotOS btw

I had this recently too. I am not sure why it caused it but I learned from here: https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27373 that you can just do iretq and it seems to work. You could also just do sti and ret. Also I learned the hard way: do not copy 32 bit dit code to long mode. It always ends up bad. I have a project running that seems to have working interrupts. Use it for inspiration all you want. https://github.com/MandelbrotOS/MandelbrotOS/ Also excuse the bad code on my parts.

https://reactos.org/ implement some of the windows API

You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/

To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...

Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/

I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.

With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.

ReactOS is sometimes very disappointing. Take the issue with toolbar icons, for example. Toolbar icons in at least Office 97, Office 2000 and Visual Basic 6 were affected, as was some game [0]. Microsoft Office is a complex Win32 application, making it a good guinea pig for testing compatibility. And yet, this was fixed a few months ago, and the Office bug was reported in 2016 [1]. The bug with no text wrapping for tray balloons is also an embarrassing thing to have lingering for years (I assume it was like this since the balloons were first implemented in ReactOS).

Does the world really need a buggy Windows Server 2003 reimplementation? I think the efforts of the development team could be better spent elsewhere.

[0]: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/5227

[1]: https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-12377

Anyone tried ReactOS recently? Supposed to be a clean-room FOSS Windows NT compatible OS.

https://reactos.org/

It's still on my TODO. Mostly cause my parents want XP back.

> It's whitespace. There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful.

I wanted to see how LibreOffice would compare on my netbook, and frankly it's better than the new Word, but still "worse" than the old version: https://i.imgur.com/cWGYh3M.png

That said, at least LibreOffice lets you have your custom themes and actually offers a variety of different interface layouts, which I think is a nice touch: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/User_interface

> Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX, and you'll never change my mind. It's been downhill ever since, getting worse and worse with each generation.

To be honest, I'm inclined to agree with this. That's also why I rather enjoyed the Redmond theme even in *nix distros. There's just something so very usable about the old Windows look and more modern attempts, such as SerenityOS https://serenityos.org/ and even ReactOS https://reactos.org/