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While it appears to be a complete clone of Windows, it didn't worked so well for me so I ditched it as well.Īs for Windows, I rank them this way: 2000 Professional, 98, 95, 3.11. I know FreeBSD is a different beast and more closer to a macOS cousin than linux per se, but helloSystem appears to be a quite nice initiative. elementaryOS (striking resemblance with macOS) Of all Linux distros I have ever used to this date, I have ranked them this way:ġ. One of the stranger ideas the have is running Wine under Cygwin (a compact implementation of many Linux APIs) on Windows.Debian isn't bad at all, even with XFCE. Even so, it’s still a viable alternative in some situations. Although in a random twist you can apparently get certain random apps to run faster because the Wine team happen to have written that bit of code better. Since it isn’t an emulator, applications theoretically run at the same speed, but the fact that all the library code has been written from scratch this is rarely the case.Ĭontrary to popular belief regarding Microsoft’s ability to write “good code”, much of the stuff underlying Windows is quite well optimised and being so new, some of the stuff in Wine isn’t. And of course it can run native Linux apps too. This seems like a better approach since a lot of the features of an operating system which have to be implemented by ReactOS already exist in Linux. Wine is an implementation of the Windows API designed to run in Linux. Wine has similar goals to ReactOS, namely to give users the ability to run Windows applications without buying Windows, but goes about it in a different way. Second since I have administrator access anyway it doesn’t really provide any security (it happens so often that you just click accept straight away without reading it).Īfter my post about ReactOS I felt I should mention Wine. User Account Control really is as annoying as they say it is for at least two reasons: Firstly it seems to ask you everything twice.

The Aero glass lucks cool and stuff and the new games it comes with are at least as entertaining as the old ones were when I first saw them.

Beyond that, I haven’t done much with it yet.

#Reactos themes windows 10 drivers#

Well luckily I have another computer with internect access so I got the network drivers (and then the video and sound drivers). Then once I had installed Vista it didn’t have drivers for my network card or my sound card (and no network card meant no internet and therefore no video drivers and therefore horrible resolution (at the wrong aspect ratio no less).

#Reactos themes windows 10 install#

It would only let me install from Windows. Previous version of Windows just asked for you to pop the disk of the previous version in this situation - Vista didn’t. I’d previously bought Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 but I was doing a clean install.

#Reactos themes windows 10 upgrade#

The first problem was the fact that I bought the upgrade version. That’s not to say everything went perfectly, but nothing unsurmountable happened. I installed it myself and to be honest everything went smoothly. Well for various reasons I now have Windows Vista.