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reactos
- Saving Linux
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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
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.
- Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows 10 Security Updates
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
Anyone tried ReactOS recently? Supposed to be a clean-room FOSS Windows NT compatible OS.
It's still on my TODO. Mostly cause my parents want XP back.
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Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
> 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/
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Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
I'm currently using Linux due to this kind of hostile behavior from Microsoft on Windows.
However, we are power users and the big masses won't care about an ever increasing misalignment between the users' needs and Microsoft's. We cannot vote with our wallets, e.g. by using Linux instead. It won't matter.
What we could maybe do is contribute to projects like ReactOS[0] and make it easier for the layperson to migrate to it if modern Windows finally annoys them. Just food for thought.
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A free Windows-compatible Operating System
And no news on the main page since March 2022: https://reactos.org/
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Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
A quick test-run on the pages linked from the hackernews front page:
hackernews svg logo doesn't render
youtube embed on the servo homepage doesn't load
https://github.com/tpope/timl -> reloads/rerenders infinitely, uses 100% of 1 core
https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/the-obvious-final-... -> hangs while loading the page, uses 100% of 1 core
https://equalitytime.github.io/FlowersForTuring/ -> loads/renders fine
https://github.com/reactos/reactos -> reloads/rerenders infinitely, uses 100% of 1 core
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefi... -> loads fine but css rendering/placement is off on breadcrumbs and article
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2023/05/23/new-xen-updates-on-risc-v... -> very long load then hangs while loading javascript/content.
Not a great batting average - seems like sites need to be purpose built for this or leverage little/no modern javascript libraries for it to render accurately. Servo has been in this state for the last 5 or 6 years since I first discovered it.
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The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked | The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
I'm holding out for when Reactos is as good as XP. Should only take a decade or so.
darling
- Zed is now open source
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MacOS like WINE
There is actually a Wine-like transplier called Darling. The problem is that development is very slow because there is not as much need for MacOS programs on Linux, and there is a huge shortage of volunteers and manpower. And it has been rendered almost obsolete because Apple moved to ARM. Additionally 90% of Apple's API is closed source despite Apple claiming to champion open source.
There's https://www.darlinghq.org/ , but it's much less mature and less capable than Wine, today. There are a variety of reasons for that. One of them is that Wine started much earlier, in 1993, vs in 2012. One of them is that there's a much larger library of existing Win32 software, which tends to mean that there's more interest in providing a compatible runtime for that software. And one is simply that there are commercial vendors like Valve working on Wine in order to ensure that Microsoft can't lock them into a platform like Apple's App Store and demand a significant percentage of all sales as Apple does for iOS.
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RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
Unfortunately not. Darling [0] is still at the point that it can only run command line applications. Only the most basic GUI applications are supported. That's still a massive accomplishment that I don't want to diminish, but it's nowhere near the point that WINE was at even quite a long time ago.
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Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux
xcodebuild CLI to compile iOS apps without a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488
- Whisky: Wine Supercharged with the Power of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit
- The first conformant M1 GPU driver
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[Review] Introducing cargo-xwin: A Solution for Cross-Compiling Rust on macOS to MSVC
There is a "Wine but for MacOS" https://www.darlinghq.org/, though we've never actually used it since it unfortunately doesn't support aarch64.
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Validating binaries on different platforms from the source environment
Is only working for Windows and Linux at the moment (although Darling could be promising of OSX)
What are some alternatives?
text-generation-webui - A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.
NsCDE - Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
docker-minecraft-server - Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server that will automatically download selected version at startup
Lenovo-Thinkpad-T450-T450s-Hackintosh-Guide-Opencore - This repo contains the installation guide and EFI files required to get a perfectly functional Catalina and Big Sur hackintosh on your Brodwell (5th gen) T450 or T450s. Everything is stable and functional as described in the Readme.
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS