New Debian based distribution released as an alternative to ReactOS

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Robsteady@reddit

I know I'm not the first one to say it here, but this is not an alternative to ReactOS. The point of ReactOS isn't that it looks like old Windows, it's that it works exactly like Windows (or as close as can be done as a reverse-engineered open source alternative).

This is just a Linux distro preloaded with WINE that looks like old Windows circa '95-2000.

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ofernandofilo@reddit

would it be possible to use GPU acceleration in a VM, with qemu-kvm spice, and run Windows games in the VM with the project instead of having Wine installed on the machine or even via Flatpak/Bottles/Lutris?

I run some games through android-x86 in a VM and the performance is completely satisfactory.

_o/

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Wonderful-Citron-678@reddit

That’s a lot of steps to perform worse. But sure you can use the virgl driver, it’s mediocre.

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mrlinkwii@reddit

whyyyy

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Pitiful-Welcome-399@reddit (OP)

because free will of that dev I guess

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MatchingTurret@reddit

If you create a distro:

How fast would you respond to another Copy.Fail?
Are you a member of the linux-distros mailing lists (It's restricted)?
How large is your incidence response team?

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Pitiful-Welcome-399@reddit (OP)

I'm not an actual developer of that project neither tied to it somehow, I just wanted to share a pretty interesting distro with people

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Wonderful-Citron-678@reddit

Just don’t use it? Most free software are toys.

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Accurate_Hornet@reddit

I respect anyone with the willpower to create a new distro, but the last thing we need are more distros. Unless you create something meaningfully different (that can't be replicated with minor tinkering somewhere else) then imo it's wasted resources.

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UNF0RM4TT3D@reddit

Nice, someone actually made the Win32/Linux meme real.

Not a ReactOS alternative though.

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FryBoyter@reddit

New Debian based distribution released as an alternative to ReactOS

C:\Deb is a Win32/Linux system built on Debian 13 and Wine, with a borrowed userland from ReactOS,

Therefore, I wouldn't consider the project a real alternative.

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AmarildoJr@reddit

Honest question: with how good Wine/Proton has been lately, even running Adobe programs, is there a true demand for ReactOS? Because as far as I know Wine is specially good at running legacy (think Windows 2000's era) software.

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unixmachine@reddit

There may not be a demand for personal use, but there may be interest in preserving an open-source version of Windows. It's interesting from a technical standpoint, as an object of study.

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Pitiful-Welcome-399@reddit (OP)

ReactOS aims to run windows apps without compatibility layers but I think it would take them a very long time to bring today's apps into working state

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All consumer hardware since 2011 is UEFI based.

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