r/reactos • u/piovono_pancake • 3d ago

A reactOS fork?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T1WnEJrW9d0&si=Y747hPyImpnGpKN0
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u/User_Typical 3d ago

did you try installing any recent 3rd party software?

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u/Southern_Worker4102 3d ago

Chromium-based things work (like steam) but compat isn't very good either. But it gets updated everyday so I have high hopes for it.

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u/Francois-C 3d ago

There is a clear, widespread trend toward replacing major commercial software programs with AI clones—a phenomenon that, in a way, reminds me of the auld lang syne when "cracked" versions of commercial software were available everywhere ;) This could also help projects like ReactOS make progress by incorporating the best features from this fork, given that the clones are open source.

I’ve tried a few of these AI clones—specifically those from ArtCraft. They’re sometimes interesting, though they obviously make my computer’s fans spin up (some others, from different sources, are practically unusable for this very reason)... The only one I’ve adopted so far is PDFCraft; it’s already better than anything else we’ve had on Linux, despite a few odd quirks—the kind you often run into with AI.

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u/jmhalder 3d ago

It's been posted here before. It's a lot of AI slop, which people have mixed feelings on. If it's going to progress comically fast, and if competent people can debug it. It is a fork of ReactOS and if they want to slop up their fork, let them. I'm not above playing around with it.

There's a whole conversation about copyrighting or licensing slopped code, but lets not have that discussion today.

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 3d ago

The guy who made it is know in the ROS community and knows what he's doing even if it's AI assisted, so yeah it's not like AI is writing all the code without anyone experienced checking stuff 

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u/ManRevvv 2d ago

the commits are made literally every 1.5 hours by one contributor, clearly the author don't know what he doing

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 3d ago

Assisted by Ai is not the same as AI slop. It will open new possibilities to make ReactOS usable for instance.

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u/jmhalder 2d ago

I enjoy calling everything AI slop, regardless of the quality. I agree that it's incredible for streamlining programming tasks.

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u/Different_Water7545 3d ago

why fork? send patches and get reactos there

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u/demetrioussharpe 3d ago

They probably already explained why they forked.

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u/KasanesTetos 3d ago

The ReactOS team is still deathly afraid of potentially infringing on copyright. AI code is still in somewhat of a grey area, so the ReactOS team haven't been embracing it like most other projects. While I can understand the concern, the truth is, they're probably just gonna be left behind and forgotten about by forks (like this one) who aren't afraid of copyright concerns and are going full steam ahead with AI code.

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u/Different_Water7545 3d ago

Oh I didn't realize it was AI, I should've guessed that. In that case I get it. Myself I think it should stay out of ReactOS, but to each their own

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u/TheJonThomas 3d ago

They won’t touch ai because there’s a chance the it was trained on Microsoft copyrighted code at some point, and if it was there’s a chance it could spit out that copyrighted code at any time. That chance isn’t worth getting their life destroyed by Microsoft lawyers.

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u/jvy7122 3d ago

AI generated

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u/User_Typical 3d ago

I wish I could get it to work in VirtualBox. After much experimentation, I finally got to the "choose language" screen with the ISO, but as soon as I tried to use the mouse pointer, I got the BSOD.

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u/ManRevvv 2d ago

didn't booted at all in virtualbox, just random glitches and BSOD without text. in VMware I had same thing

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u/TheRealCarrotty 3d ago

hm, should i use ReactOS with old app support or an AI vibecoded slop fork of ReactOS for modern apps.

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u/Professional-Pay-904 1d ago

third option: use windows 11 or xp.

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u/ManRevvv 2d ago

I'll just copy the comment I wrote under one video about libernt and paste it here

the project is honestly quite trash, and it haves so much problems

  1. the dev is one person with dozen of ai agents

  2. the project is obviously vibecoded and "clean-roomed" (but its not, the ai probably was trained on leaked code)

  3. the project is not maintains BIOS boot but for some reason uses NTLDR as default loader (???)

  4. for some reason its way less stable than ReactOS and boots from hard drive in 1 out of 10 cases

  5. the project maintains 103298102 architectures but can't run any properly (reactos still have issues with WoW64 even after 12 years lol)

  6. reactos suck even at nt6 compat (and nt5.2 is like half-implemented still), i won't even mention nt10, so clearly even for one person with ai agents its years and years of work and after like 2 years or something no one will maintain it

It’s the same as building a large three-story villa on a dilapidated foundation that was laid back when Theodore Roosevelt was president

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u/MentalLavishness6644 2d ago

os that will never be finished adds new fork that will never be started

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u/ShatteredRubies 1d ago

Why on earth would they call it that..? "LiberNT" Is that supposed to be a play on the word liberate? If not then I got no clue. Its just a bad name otherwise. (In my own personal opinion of course)