<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><transcript><text start="0.16" dur="3.039">hey friends now i don&amp;#39;t know if you&amp;#39;ve</text><text start="1.439" dur="3.521">realized from watching my channel over</text><text start="3.199" dur="4.56">the years that i&amp;#39;m not actually</text><text start="4.96" dur="3.76">the biggest fan of microsoft windows</text><text start="7.759" dur="2.721">shocking i know</text><text start="8.72" dur="3.039">but i have actually done videos in the</text><text start="10.48" dur="2.96">last couple of years</text><text start="11.759" dur="3.281">singing the praises of different</text><text start="13.44" dur="3.44">versions of windows and you know</text><text start="15.04" dur="3.68">hand on heart i will give microsoft</text><text start="16.88" dur="4.559">credit when credits to you</text><text start="18.72" dur="3.68">for example windows 95 i thought had a</text><text start="21.439" dur="2.881">lot of innovation</text><text start="22.4" dur="3.52">from microsoft and we saw things in</text><text start="24.32" dur="3.76">there that are still present in</text><text start="25.92" dur="3.84">desktop user interfaces today things</text><text start="28.08" dur="1.92">like the start menu for example that you</text><text start="29.76" dur="2.479">know</text><text start="30" dur="3.92">is not only still in windows despite</text><text start="32.239" dur="3.441">them trying to kill it off in windows 8</text><text start="33.92" dur="3.92">but also pretty much every linux distro</text><text start="35.68" dur="3.84">that you download has got some form of</text><text start="37.84" dur="3.84">start menu in there as well</text><text start="39.52" dur="3.92">and windows 2000 i thought was a very</text><text start="41.68" dur="2.559">elegant and streamlined version of</text><text start="43.44" dur="2.799">windows you know</text><text start="44.239" dur="3.681">for a microsoft operating system so</text><text start="46.239" dur="3.441">there are certain versions of windows</text><text start="47.92" dur="3.279">i&amp;#39;ve been impressed with over the years</text><text start="49.68" dur="4.08">but i think it kind of goes back to my</text><text start="51.199" dur="5.281">days as a real hardcore</text><text start="53.76" dur="5.2">loyal amiga user i used amigas all</text><text start="56.48" dur="4.16">throughout the 90s and up until actually</text><text start="58.96" dur="4.239">2001</text><text start="60.64" dur="3.519">so it wasn&amp;#39;t until windows xp came along</text><text start="63.199" dur="3.6">that i finally</text><text start="64.159" dur="3.681">packed up my amiga 1200 and moved over</text><text start="66.799" dur="2.721">to the dark side</text><text start="67.84" dur="3.52">because before that i remember seeing</text><text start="69.52" dur="3.76">windows 95 and thinking</text><text start="71.36" dur="4.079">that microsoft were finally catching up</text><text start="73.28" dur="5.04">with the things that my media could do</text><text start="75.439" dur="4.561">admittedly using four times the ram and</text><text start="78.32" dur="2.799">four times the storage capacity</text><text start="80" dur="3.439">but before that i mean you know i</text><text start="81.119" dur="4.881">thought windows 3.1 was a complete joke</text><text start="83.439" dur="3.36">compared to amiga os but in the time</text><text start="86" dur="2.4">since then i mean</text><text start="86.799" dur="3.121">i was that teenager that had the the</text><text start="88.4" dur="3.44">intel outside</text><text start="89.92" dur="3.68">desktop wallpaper on my amiga i shared</text><text start="91.84" dur="3.84">this gif behind me with uh</text><text start="93.6" dur="3.519">various friends on the early web i&amp;#39;m</text><text start="95.68" dur="3.6">sure but</text><text start="97.119" dur="3.281">i&amp;#39;ve admitted the fact that i do need to</text><text start="99.28" dur="3.28">use windows</text><text start="100.4" dur="3.92">for work purposes and that is the case</text><text start="102.56" dur="3.28">for many of us and i think generally if</text><text start="104.32" dur="3.04">you&amp;#39;re a windows user</text><text start="105.84" dur="3.2">you kind of use it by default because</text><text start="107.36" dur="3.28">there are programs on there that you</text><text start="109.04" dur="3.2">have to use i&amp;#39;ve never really met anyone</text><text start="110.64" dur="4.159">that uses windows because they&amp;#39;re</text><text start="112.24" dur="4.08">a fan of it or they enjoy using it and</text><text start="114.799" dur="3.201">looking around my house i mean i&amp;#39;ve got</text><text start="116.32" dur="2.399">one windows machine which is the one</text><text start="118" dur="3.04">behind me</text><text start="118.719" dur="3.841">running windows 10 but i&amp;#39;ve got various</text><text start="121.04" dur="2.64">work applications on there that only</text><text start="122.56" dur="3.12">work with windows</text><text start="123.68" dur="3.119">apart from that i&amp;#39;ve got six current</text><text start="125.68" dur="3.199">macs around the house</text><text start="126.799" dur="3.6">i edit all my videos on this m1 mac mini</text><text start="128.879" dur="3.041">next to me which works great</text><text start="130.399" dur="3.281">and i have about four or five linux</text><text start="131.92" dur="2.24">machines as well in various rooms of the</text><text start="133.68" dur="2.8">house</text><text start="134.16" dur="3.12">so really i&amp;#39;m not much of a windows user</text><text start="136.48" dur="2.479">these days</text><text start="137.28" dur="3.679">and maybe you&amp;#39;re the same and you&amp;#39;re</text><text start="138.959" dur="3.841">thinking how can i get away from using</text><text start="140.959" dur="4.081">windows in 2021</text><text start="142.8" dur="3.2">well obviously we have things like linux</text><text start="145.04" dur="2.88">with wine</text><text start="146" dur="3.28">in there where you can run with various</text><text start="147.92" dur="3.76">degrees of success</text><text start="149.28" dur="3.679">different windows only applications but</text><text start="151.68" dur="4">also there is a</text><text start="152.959" dur="3.681">drop in open source windows replacement</text><text start="155.68" dur="2.24">operating system</text><text start="156.64" dur="3.28">that&amp;#39;s actually been in development</text><text start="157.92" dur="4.88">since the mid 90s called</text><text start="159.92" dur="4.399">reactos so i haven&amp;#39;t really given a test</text><text start="162.8" dur="2.079">drive for a while so i thought in this</text><text start="164.319" dur="2.56">video</text><text start="164.879" dur="3.44">we download the latest version of react</text><text start="166.879" dur="3.44">os and find out</text><text start="168.319" dur="4.321">how well it works as a windows</text><text start="170.319" dur="4.081">replacement in 2021</text><text start="172.64" dur="3.2">now just before we get into it i wanted</text><text start="174.4" dur="3.44">to take a quick moment to give a big</text><text start="175.84" dur="5.52">thank you to this video sponsor</text><text start="177.84" dur="4.08">the amazing total av antivirus now total</text><text start="181.36" dur="2.56">av</text><text start="181.92" dur="3.599">is an award-winning product trusted by</text><text start="183.92" dur="3.76">millions of people around the world</text><text start="185.519" dur="4.08">that protects your computer be it a pc</text><text start="187.68" dur="3.919">or a mac or even your smartphone</text><text start="189.599" dur="4.72">from the bad guys and as well as being</text><text start="191.599" dur="5.841">safe from malware spyware and viruses</text><text start="194.319" dur="3.92">it also encrypts your data and has a vpn</text><text start="197.44" 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os i</text><text start="274.479" dur="2.801">thought i&amp;#39;d give you a quick bit of</text><text start="275.759" dur="3.201">background on the project</text><text start="277.28" dur="3.84">as i mentioned it started all the way</text><text start="278.96" dur="6">back in 1996</text><text start="281.12" dur="5.76">originally under the name free win 95</text><text start="284.96" dur="4.16">and as that suggests it was originally</text><text start="286.88" dur="3.92">aiming to be a drop in replacement for</text><text start="289.12" dur="3.519">windows 95</text><text start="290.8" dur="3.04">and over the years the name was changed</text><text start="292.639" dur="2.721">to react os</text><text start="293.84" dur="3.52">and they expanded the aims of the</text><text start="295.36" dur="2.96">project to instead duplicate the</text><text start="297.36" dur="3.92">functionality</text><text start="298.32" dur="5.28">of windows nt which of course forms the</text><text start="301.28" dur="4.639">basis of all modern versions of windows</text><text start="303.6" dur="4">you know windows 10 is actually nt</text><text start="305.919" dur="3.441">version 10.0</text><text start="307.6" dur="3.76">and despite react os having been in</text><text start="309.36" dur="5.04">development for 25 years</text><text start="311.36" dur="4.96">progress on it has been pretty slow</text><text start="314.4" dur="4.32">to say the least and all these years</text><text start="316.32" dur="5.28">later in 2021</text><text start="318.72" dur="4.8">it is still only in alpha state now</text><text start="321.6" dur="3.2">admittedly that is rather slow it&amp;#39;s not</text><text start="323.52" dur="3.6">completely unique</text><text start="324.8" dur="3.119">in the world of operating systems i mean</text><text start="327.12" dur="2.56">i could use</text><text start="327.919" dur="3.601">this opportunity to mention gnu heard</text><text start="329.68" dur="3.92">again but i got enough hate about that</text><text start="331.52" dur="2.72">in the last video so i will quickly move</text><text start="333.6" dur="3.24">on</text><text start="334.24" dur="4.239">now the current version of react os is</text><text start="336.84" dur="4.68">0.4.3</text><text start="338.479" dur="4.801">and that was released in april of 2020</text><text start="341.52" dur="3.92">but on their website there are also</text><text start="343.28" dur="4.24">nightly builds that are more up-to-date</text><text start="345.44" dur="3.759">and include some newer features</text><text start="347.52" dur="2.72">obviously that might be compromising</text><text start="349.199" dur="2.801">stability</text><text start="350.24" dur="3.6">but based on the advice i&amp;#39;ve received</text><text start="352" dur="4">from the forums it is worth trying the</text><text start="353.84" dur="4.4">nightly builds so i&amp;#39;m going to be using</text><text start="356" dur="3.919">the latest nightly build for this video</text><text start="358.24" dur="4.72">and installing it in</text><text start="359.919" dur="6">virtualbox to test it out now i did have</text><text start="362.96" dur="3.679">a pc ready to try reactos on physical</text><text start="365.919" dur="3.361">hardware</text><text start="366.639" dur="4.161">but after burning a cd image i couldn&amp;#39;t</text><text start="369.28" dur="3.44">even get the system to boot</text><text start="370.8" dur="4.16">and apparently that is not uncommon you</text><text start="372.72" dur="4.16">know alpha software and everything</text><text start="374.96" dur="5.519">so after we&amp;#39;ve downloaded the iso file</text><text start="376.88" dur="5.039">we can get to work installing reactos</text><text start="380.479" dur="4">all right and here we are inside the</text><text start="381.919" dur="4.321">virtualbox manager and i&amp;#39;ve created a</text><text start="384.479" dur="3.681">virtual machine that should have the</text><text start="386.24" dur="4.16">ideal settings to</text><text start="388.16" dur="3.28">install react os i&amp;#39;ve read these on</text><text start="390.4" dur="2.239">forums online</text><text start="391.44" dur="3.28">and i can put them in the video</text><text start="392.639" dur="4">description if you&amp;#39;re interested but as</text><text start="394.72" dur="3.199">you can see here we&amp;#39;ve got 32 megabytes</text><text start="396.639" dur="4.481">of video memory</text><text start="397.919" dur="4.4">um the vbox vga graphics controller 2d</text><text start="401.12" dur="4.56">video and 3d</text><text start="402.319" dur="4.32">acceleration enabled um we&amp;#39;ve got the ac</text><text start="405.68" dur="4">97</text><text start="406.639" dur="5.921">audio controller the pc netfast</text><text start="409.68" dur="3.28">3 net for networking and now all we need</text><text start="412.56" dur="3.44">to do</text><text start="412.96" dur="5.2">is attach the</text><text start="416" dur="4.16">virtual box cd image and we should be</text><text start="418.16" dur="4.24">able to boot from that</text><text start="420.16" dur="3.439">and hopefully get it installed and</text><text start="422.4" dur="3.919">working inside</text><text start="423.599" dur="2.72">virtualbox</text><text start="428.479" dur="3.521">and straight away we get this uh warning</text><text start="431.039" dur="4">here</text><text start="432" dur="4.96">which i&amp;#39;ll ignore and as you can see now</text><text start="435.039" dur="3.921">we&amp;#39;ve booted straight into the</text><text start="436.96" dur="3.84">reactos installer and the first thing</text><text start="438.96" dur="4.32">that you will notice about it is</text><text start="440.8" dur="4">it is very reminiscent of the windows</text><text start="443.28" dur="3.44">installers from the era</text><text start="444.8" dur="4.64">that it&amp;#39;s attempting to emulate um</text><text start="446.72" dur="5.84">obviously windows 98 and windows 2000</text><text start="449.44" dur="6.4">look like this that kind of a blue and</text><text start="452.56" dur="7.919">silver dostyle screen so we&amp;#39;ll go to um</text><text start="455.84" dur="6.479">united kingdom and enter to install</text><text start="460.479" dur="4.241">and then we do get a warning that react</text><text start="462.319" dur="3.521">os is in alpha stage meaning it&amp;#39;s not</text><text start="464.72" dur="2.8">feature complete</text><text start="465.84" dur="3.039">and is under heavy development it is</text><text start="467.52" dur="2.399">recommended to use it only for</text><text start="468.879" dur="3.841">evaluation</text><text start="469.919" dur="5.201">and testing purposes and not as your</text><text start="472.72" dur="5.44">daily usage os so there you go</text><text start="475.12" dur="5.44">now let&amp;#39;s have a look here um</text><text start="478.16" dur="4.879">that looks fine except that then we have</text><text start="480.56" dur="4.479">the unpartitioned disk space here</text><text start="483.039" dur="3.121">so if i press enter that should create</text><text start="485.039" dur="3.201">one um</text><text start="486.16" dur="3.2">and then we can select a file system</text><text start="488.24" dur="3.92">here as well</text><text start="489.36" dur="5.04">now we do have the um butter fs there as</text><text start="492.16" dur="5.439">well which i have used in linux before</text><text start="494.4" dur="4.239">obviously we are trying to copy windows</text><text start="497.599" dur="3.361">as it were so i think</text><text start="498.639" dur="4.481">probably the fat file system which</text><text start="500.96" dur="3.84">obviously is in windows will probably be</text><text start="503.12" dur="2.639">a better choice i could be wrong but</text><text start="504.8" dur="3.679">we&amp;#39;ll go with that</text><text start="505.759" dur="4.56">and we&amp;#39;ll do a quick format and then it</text><text start="508.479" dur="3.521">asks which directory you want to install</text><text start="510.319" dur="3.121">the react os files in so</text><text start="512" dur="3.44">you know normally on windows you put it</text><text start="513.44" dur="6.159">in slash windows obviously</text><text start="515.44" dur="6.079">in here it will be slash react os</text><text start="519.599" dur="3.041">and then the installer is doing its</text><text start="521.519" dur="4.161">thing and</text><text start="522.64" dur="3.04">it seems pretty quick</text><text start="525.839" dur="3.921">install the bootloader yeah we&amp;#39;ll do</text><text start="527.44" dur="3.519">that and there we go we&amp;#39;re at the stage</text><text start="529.76" dur="3.199">now where</text><text start="530.959" dur="3.041">we are ready to reboot and run it by the</text><text start="532.959" dur="4.401">looks of it so what i&amp;#39;ll do</text><text start="534" dur="5.12">is here we also need to remove the um</text><text start="537.36" dur="5.52">the cd image before we reboot so i&amp;#39;ll</text><text start="539.12" dur="9.12">pause it and then we can go to</text><text start="542.88" dur="7.68">just remove that there we go</text><text start="548.24" dur="3.76">and that was really fast i mean i don&amp;#39;t</text><text start="550.56" dur="3.12">know when the last time you installed</text><text start="552" dur="3.12">windows 98 was but</text><text start="553.68" dur="4.159">i did that in a recent video and it took</text><text start="555.12" dur="5.44">around 45 minutes so um yeah this is</text><text start="557.839" dur="6.081">way improved over that so we&amp;#39;ll try it&amp;#39;s</text><text start="560.56" dur="3.36">the standard version of react os</text><text start="564.64" dur="2.96">and you get that really cool logo there</text><text start="566.32" dur="2.28">and as you can see the copyright date at</text><text start="567.6" dur="4">the bottom was</text><text start="568.6" dur="3">2021</text><text start="571.76" dur="5.92">and yeah this is very much like windows</text><text start="575.839" dur="3.201">2000 with those you know nice gradients</text><text start="577.68" dur="2.88">at the top there which is you know</text><text start="579.04" dur="4.32">definitely a bonus for me i mean i think</text><text start="580.56" dur="4.8">windows 2000 is probably my favorite</text><text start="583.36" dur="3.76">user interface on any version of windows</text><text start="585.36" dur="2.72">it looks really clean and really elegant</text><text start="587.12" dur="3.52">i think</text><text start="588.08" dur="4.56">um so here we are doing a bit more set</text><text start="590.64" dur="4.56">up by the looks of it</text><text start="592.64" dur="3.28">um and they acknowledge the open source</text><text start="595.2" dur="2.639">projects</text><text start="595.92" dur="3.359">that we use to create react os and other</text><text start="597.839" dur="2.881">elements of wine in there that i</text><text start="599.279" dur="4.161">mentioned a bit earlier</text><text start="600.72" dur="4.4">um various other projects here as well</text><text start="603.44" dur="3.68">sort of skip that</text><text start="605.12" dur="3.12">and then we need to choose a product</text><text start="607.12" dur="4.32">option so we can have</text><text start="608.24" dur="4.96">reactos server or workstation</text><text start="611.44" dur="4.079">so on server the system will be</text><text start="613.2" dur="4.4">recognized as a server private folders</text><text start="615.519" dur="4.161">are independent from my documents what&amp;#39;s</text><text start="617.6" dur="3.359">workstation</text><text start="619.68" dur="3.2">i guess it just means whether you want</text><text start="620.959" dur="2.401">to do network shares by the looks of it</text><text start="622.88" dur="3.92">so</text><text start="623.36" dur="3.44">we&amp;#39;ll give it a try and server here</text><text start="626.88" dur="6.56">we can um customize our locale settings</text><text start="630.32" dur="3.92">yeah that all looks fine and then the</text><text start="633.44" dur="2.56">keyboard</text><text start="634.24" dur="3.279">yeah it&amp;#39;s already on english as you can</text><text start="636" dur="3.36">see it&amp;#39;s cutting off the bottom of the</text><text start="637.519" dur="2.641">screen here a little bit in virtualbox</text><text start="639.36" dur="4.4">but</text><text start="640.16" dur="5.2">um i could scale it which makes it all</text><text start="643.76" dur="2.319">fat so yeah i think we&amp;#39;ll just go into</text><text start="645.36" dur="2">uh</text><text start="646.079" dur="3.121">into this for now hopefully we can solve</text><text start="647.36" dur="5.039">that in the graphics drivers later</text><text start="649.2" dur="6.879">um yeah keyboard&amp;#39;s been detected fine</text><text start="652.399" dur="7.841">um reboot now for language</text><text start="656.079" dur="6.561">no weird then we&amp;#39;ll put our name in here</text><text start="660.24" dur="5.039">yeah this is almost exactly like</text><text start="662.64" dur="5.52">installing windows 2000</text><text start="665.279" dur="5.601">um even down to the weird name that they</text><text start="668.16" dur="2.72">give you a machine</text><text start="671.04" dur="6.16">uh an administrator password</text><text start="674.56" dur="4.16">i don&amp;#39;t think we need that then my time</text><text start="677.2" dur="3.68">zone is correct if it&amp;#39;s very early in</text><text start="678.72" dur="5.52">the morning here</text><text start="680.88" dur="6.8">and now we can pick a theme for react os</text><text start="684.24" dur="4.56">now it&amp;#39;s currently on uh a classic by</text><text start="687.68" dur="2.64">the looks of it and that&amp;#39;s cool actually</text><text start="688.8" dur="3.44">that it changes in the installer so you</text><text start="690.32" dur="6.88">don&amp;#39;t have to wait till it boots</text><text start="692.24" dur="4.96">and we have my myzoo luna</text><text start="697.519" dur="3.361">i think we&amp;#39;ll go with a classic one you</text><text start="698.959" dur="4.641">know that looks a bit more like windows</text><text start="700.88" dur="5.84">2000 like i mentioned before</text><text start="703.6" dur="4.799">um yep typical settings</text><text start="706.72" dur="3.119">it will be part of a domain yeah we&amp;#39;ll</text><text start="708.399" dur="4.88">add it to my</text><text start="709.839" dur="6">network shares why not in what group</text><text start="713.279" dur="5.12">reactos could not find a wine gecko</text><text start="715.839" dur="5.601">package which is needed for embedding</text><text start="718.399" dur="5.601">html to work correctly okay</text><text start="721.44" dur="2.56">install it</text><text start="724.639" dur="3.921">okay now our first problem here it looks</text><text start="727.2" dur="2.8">like maybe</text><text start="728.56" dur="3.519">i haven&amp;#39;t configured the internet</text><text start="730" dur="4.959">connection properly or there are no</text><text start="732.079" dur="6.161">drivers installed maybe so</text><text start="734.959" dur="6.161">we can skip that for now okay that&amp;#39;s</text><text start="738.24" dur="2.88">gonna do another reboot</text><text start="742.32" dur="3.519">i am impressed at how responsive and how</text><text start="744.8" dur="2.4">quickly we&amp;#39;re going through the</text><text start="745.839" dur="3.041">installer here</text><text start="747.2" dur="4.96">as i said compared to those old versions</text><text start="748.88" dur="7.36">of windows you know this is flying</text><text start="752.16" dur="7.6">and here we go um we found a</text><text start="756.24" dur="6">new device driver for system device</text><text start="759.76" dur="4.639">yeah that&amp;#39;s very vague um okay trading</text><text start="762.24" dur="5.52">automatically</text><text start="764.399" dur="5.201">driver couldn&amp;#39;t be found okay</text><text start="767.76" dur="4.24">uh this one for the audio device okay</text><text start="769.6" dur="3.84">install automatically</text><text start="772" dur="2.48">couldn&amp;#39;t be found right this could be</text><text start="773.44" dur="2.48">because we haven&amp;#39;t got a network</text><text start="774.48" dur="2.88">connection working</text><text start="775.92" dur="4">um but as we can see here you know we</text><text start="777.36" dur="6.88">are on the the reactos desktop</text><text start="779.92" dur="6.96">and yeah wow this looks very much like</text><text start="784.24" dur="4.159">windows 2000 doesn&amp;#39;t it um even down to</text><text start="786.88" dur="3.54">the start menu there in the corner here</text><text start="788.399" dur="3.44">look at that</text><text start="790.42" dur="2.62">[Music]</text><text start="791.839" dur="4.081">and we&amp;#39;ll have a look through some of</text><text start="793.04" dur="4.32">the in-store programs and</text><text start="795.92" dur="3.039">settings very soon they have done a very</text><text start="797.36" dur="3.76">good job at this though</text><text start="798.959" dur="3.68">but i wonder if i did read that you can</text><text start="801.12" dur="5.04">install</text><text start="802.639" dur="5.681">the virtualbox guest editions to get you</text><text start="806.16" dur="5.28">know graphics drivers and audio working</text><text start="808.32" dur="4.8">um and as you can see here reactos is</text><text start="811.44" dur="4.72">reporting as</text><text start="813.12" dur="3.839">windows nt version 5.2 which i think</text><text start="816.16" dur="4.4">what was that</text><text start="816.959" dur="5.841">windows xp alright so nt 5.2 is actually</text><text start="820.56" dur="4.16">windows server 2003 so actually a little</text><text start="822.8" dur="4.32">bit newer than windows xp</text><text 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can</text><text start="852.24" dur="6.88">make it full screen and there we go</text><text start="857.6" dur="3.599">and the virtual screen is currently set</text><text start="859.12" dur="3.2">to 8-bit color mode wonder if these work</text><text start="861.199" dur="4.801">now</text><text start="862.32" dur="6.879">no but we should be able to put it into</text><text start="866" dur="5.36">um full screen mode now and</text><text start="869.199" dur="3.76">there we go it&amp;#39;s not all stretched out</text><text start="871.36" dur="4.88">we&amp;#39;ve actually got a decent</text><text start="872.959" dur="5.601">display resolution here so let&amp;#39;s go into</text><text start="876.24" dur="3.599">um the same way you do it from windows</text><text start="878.56" dur="2.88">changing the</text><text start="879.839" dur="3.12">screen resolution and properties and</text><text start="881.44" dur="5.44">yeah this looks identical</text><text start="882.959" dur="7.44">so i think we&amp;#39;re going to um settings</text><text start="886.88" dur="3.519">yeah we can actually put that up to</text><text start="891.199" dur="4.961">now i&amp;#39;ve got a 16 9 monitor</text><text start="894.399" dur="4.081">so maybe that would work let&amp;#39;s try</text><text start="896.16" dur="5.679">putting it in um</text><text start="898.48" dur="6.08">true color as well maybe 24 bit</text><text start="901.839" dur="4.321">let&amp;#39;s try that okay so i&amp;#39;ve been</text><text start="904.56" dur="3.12">experimenting with different screen</text><text start="906.16" dur="2.72">resolutions for a couple of minutes and</text><text start="907.68" dur="3.519">unfortunately it seems</text><text start="908.88" dur="4.72">the only way that i can get the true</text><text start="911.199" dur="6">color 32-bit graphics depth</text><text start="913.6" dur="5.12">is by running it in 960 by 498</text><text start="917.199" dur="3.681">resolution which obviously</text><text start="918.72" dur="3.2">is a pretty low screen resolution in</text><text start="920.88" dur="2.639">2021</text><text start="921.92" dur="3.32">but if i change it to anything else it</text><text start="923.519" dur="4.641">keeps defaulting back to</text><text start="925.24" dur="4.599">256 colours and everything looks really</text><text start="928.16" dur="3.119">washed out on screen</text><text start="929.839" dur="4.321">but actually for the purposes of doing a</text><text start="931.279" dur="4.56">video 960x498 it&amp;#39;s probably ideal</text><text start="934.16" dur="3.039">actually because you can see everything</text><text start="935.839" dur="2.881">i&amp;#39;m doing on the screen</text><text start="937.199" dur="3.121">without me having to keep you know</text><text start="938.72" dur="2.88">zooming into different areas so</text><text start="940.32" dur="2.8">we&amp;#39;ll stick with it for the rest of this</text><text start="941.6" dur="2.56">vid and hopefully it won&amp;#39;t cause too</text><text start="943.12" dur="2.399">many problems</text><text start="944.16" dur="3.28">but while we&amp;#39;re in the display</text><text start="945.519" dur="4.161">properties which again looks</text><text start="947.44" dur="3.519">very very similar to those old school</text><text start="949.68" dur="2.399">versions of windows</text><text start="950.959" dur="3.68">i thought we&amp;#39;d have a little look at</text><text start="952.079" dur="4.801">what else we can change from here</text><text start="954.639" dur="3.12">as you can see there are some of those</text><text start="956.88" dur="2.399">themes that we saw</text><text start="957.759" dur="3.281">on the installer that actually we can</text><text start="959.279" dur="4.48">just jump right into from here</text><text start="961.04" dur="4">without having to reinstall reactos so</text><text start="963.759" dur="2">let&amp;#39;s see what those look like now this</text><text start="965.04" dur="3.359">one is called</text><text start="965.759" dur="4.961">lotus so if we apply that as you can see</text><text start="968.399" dur="5.041">everything changes to this really dark</text><text start="970.72" dur="3.76">theme here um the start menu you know</text><text start="973.44" dur="3.44">you&amp;#39;ve got that kind of black</text><text start="974.48" dur="4.64">reactos logo in the corner there and we</text><text start="976.88" dur="5.759">have one called luna</text><text start="979.12" dur="5.519">which actually i thought luna might be</text><text start="982.639" dur="3.361">similar to windows xp you know with</text><text start="984.639" dur="1.681">rounded corners and everything you know</text><text start="986" dur="2">the</text><text start="986.32" dur="3.199">the fisher-price theme as we used to</text><text start="988" dur="2.8">call it which is called luna but</text><text start="989.519" dur="1.601">actually it looks a bit more like a kind</text><text start="990.8" dur="3.76">of</text><text start="991.12" dur="5.36">dark mode and we also have mizu in there</text><text start="994.56" dur="3.12">as well on my zoo</text><text start="996.48" dur="3.359">yeah i do quite like that one actually</text><text start="997.68" dur="3.599">that looks quite modern</text><text start="999.839" dur="2.721">that kind of flat look that you get in</text><text start="1001.279" dur="2.961">modern versions of windows and there is</text><text start="1002.56" dur="4.079">actually one called modern</text><text start="1004.24" dur="3.039">um which again another dark kind of</text><text start="1006.639" dur="2.88">theme</text><text start="1007.279" dur="3.201">i&amp;#39;m not a fan of really using dark modes</text><text start="1009.519" dur="2.961">really i generally</text><text start="1010.48" dur="4">prefer light themes in my operating</text><text start="1012.48" dur="3.359">systems you know to keep me awake</text><text start="1014.48" dur="2.719">uh but on this one i think we&amp;#39;ll go back</text><text start="1015.839" dur="2.161">to the classic theme you know much</text><text start="1017.199" dur="5.041">prefer that</text><text start="1018" dur="5.519">windows 2000 kind of look um and we have</text><text start="1022.24" dur="2.719">here&amp;#39;s some different color schemes in</text><text start="1023.519" dur="3.761">here as well some of which actually look</text><text start="1024.959" dur="4">like they&amp;#39;ve been lifted straight from</text><text start="1027.28" dur="4.639">the old versions of windows yeah like</text><text start="1028.959" dur="5.281">that pumpkin i don&amp;#39;t remember that one</text><text start="1031.919" dur="2.321">wheat</text><text start="1036.24" dur="4.64">eggplant that was definitely in windows</text><text start="1039.12" dur="5.439">i think i did use that one for a while</text><text start="1040.88" dur="6.159">in windows 98 uh</text><text start="1044.559" dur="4.401">reactos classic which is you know a 95</text><text start="1047.039" dur="4.961">98 theme by the looks of it</text><text start="1048.96" dur="4.48">um red white and blue</text><text start="1052" dur="2.72">cool we&amp;#39;ll stick with the uh the</text><text start="1053.44" dur="3.04">standard one now that kind of windows</text><text start="1054.72" dur="4.8">2000 gradient look i&amp;#39;ve always</text><text start="1056.48" dur="4.319">preferred that um screen savers now we</text><text start="1059.52" dur="5.44">have a couple installed the</text><text start="1060.799" dur="6.401">good old 3d tech screensaver</text><text start="1064.96" dur="3.76">running very smoothly that looks very</text><text start="1067.2" dur="4.88">nice</text><text start="1068.72" dur="4.959">and um yeah the the lock screen one that</text><text start="1072.08" dur="3.2">you could have</text><text start="1073.679" dur="3.041">backgrounds yeah it looks like we</text><text start="1075.28" dur="2.56">haven&amp;#39;t got any installed by default but</text><text start="1076.72" dur="4">obviously you know you can</text><text start="1077.84" dur="4.56">add your own in there let&amp;#39;s look at the</text><text start="1080.72" dur="3.36">device manager</text><text start="1082.4" dur="4.399">there you go see everything is installed</text><text start="1084.08" dur="4.16">here our network</text><text start="1086.799" dur="3.601">adapter should be installed and working</text><text start="1088.24" dur="3.439">by the looks of this so this might be a</text><text start="1090.4" dur="2.399">good time actually to see if we can get</text><text start="1091.679" dur="4.081">online</text><text start="1092.799" dur="4.481">so i do think there is a web browser</text><text start="1095.76" dur="3.6">bundled with</text><text start="1097.28" dur="3.84">react os there we go the wine version of</text><text start="1099.36" dur="3.84">internet explorer</text><text start="1101.12" dur="3.52">um which i haven&amp;#39;t got high hopes for</text><text start="1103.2" dur="4.88">but i think there are other</text><text start="1104.64" dur="5.039">web browsers that we can run in here</text><text start="1108.08" dur="4.479">and by the looks of it is trying to load</text><text start="1109.679" dur="7.12">the reactor west homepage</text><text start="1112.559" dur="4.24">and uh not having much joy</text><text start="1117.2" dur="3.68">let&amp;#39;s try something we know works google</text><text start="1121.44" dur="5.2">and by the looks of it it is connecting</text><text start="1122.96" dur="3.68">to google and pulling through</text><text start="1126.72" dur="3.04">something here because the url has</text><text start="1128.48" dur="2.96">changed but we&amp;#39;re not getting anything</text><text start="1129.76" dur="5.08">displayed</text><text start="1131.44" dur="5.2">in the browser let&amp;#39;s try a really simple</text><text start="1134.84" dur="4.44">website</text><text start="1136.64" dur="4.96">the oldnet.com which is you know a basic</text><text start="1139.28" dur="3.44">html 1.0 website which again is not</text><text start="1141.6" dur="2.88">pulling through</text><text start="1142.72" dur="3.199">i wonder if this is related to that</text><text start="1144.48" dur="4.079">error message i saw on</text><text start="1145.919" dur="3.921">install about html rendering you know</text><text start="1148.559" dur="3.601">the the gecko</text><text start="1149.84" dur="3.04">edition that it couldn&amp;#39;t install um</text><text start="1152.16" dur="1.84">because</text><text start="1152.88" dur="4.159">by the looks of it we&amp;#39;re not getting an</text><text start="1154" dur="5.44">hd any html rendered in the web browser</text><text start="1157.039" dur="3.041">um we&amp;#39;ll do a quick check to see if we</text><text start="1159.44" dur="3.119">have got</text><text start="1160.08" dur="4.8">network connectivity so if we go into</text><text start="1162.559" dur="6.881">the command prompt</text><text 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that you didn&amp;#39;t have</text><text start="1197.84" dur="3.68">in the old versions of windows you know</text><text start="1199.679" dur="3.841">the the package manager the windows</text><text start="1201.52" dur="4">app store wasn&amp;#39;t introduced until i</text><text start="1203.52" dur="2.48">think it was windows 7 or maybe windows</text><text start="1205.52" dur="1.92">8.</text><text start="1206" dur="3.84">so we&amp;#39;ll explore that and get some</text><text start="1207.44" dur="3.84">third-party programs installed and maybe</text><text start="1209.84" dur="5.28">get a new web browser</text><text start="1211.28" dur="4.8">that will render html in just a bit but</text><text start="1215.12" dur="3.2">i thought we&amp;#39;d have a look at what else</text><text start="1216.08" dur="4.479">is installed here i mean if we go into</text><text start="1218.32" dur="3.92">windows explorer as you can see this is</text><text start="1220.559" dur="2">all very similar to windows we&amp;#39;ve got</text><text start="1222.24" dur="3.679">the c</text><text start="1222.559" dur="7.281">drive there d which is my virtual</text><text start="1225.919" dur="5.281">cd-rom drive and then the file structure</text><text start="1229.84" dur="3.44">identical to windows we have my</text><text start="1231.2" dur="4.56">documents folders there</text><text start="1233.28" dur="5.279">and program files are all installed here</text><text start="1235.76" dur="4.72">the reactos folder</text><text start="1238.559" dur="4.721">let&amp;#39;s try a few of those um</text><text start="1240.48" dur="4.88">out-of-the-box in-store programs</text><text start="1243.28" dur="4.72">we have you know clones of notepad and</text><text start="1245.36" dur="4.64">paint they go paint looks</text><text start="1248" dur="3.76">extremely similar to windows virtually</text><text start="1250" dur="4.72">no difference there</text><text start="1251.76" dur="2.96">same with notepad</text><text start="1255.52" dur="4.56">the calculator which again as you&amp;#39;d</text><text start="1258.24" dur="2.799">expect looks like the windows 2000</text><text start="1260.08" dur="3.76">version of the</text><text start="1261.039" dur="2.801">windows calculator</text><text start="1264.159" dur="3.52">word pad yeah i forgot they used to be</text><text start="1266.559" dur="3.201">like um</text><text start="1267.679" dur="3.761">is that still in windows now i know</text><text start="1269.76" dur="2.799">notepad&amp;#39;s in there but wordpad was a bit</text><text start="1271.44" dur="3.4">more fully featured</text><text start="1272.559" dur="3.441">and i remember couldn&amp;#39;t this load</text><text start="1274.84" dur="2.76">windows</text><text start="1276" dur="3.52">credit load microsoft office files in</text><text start="1277.6" dur="3.12">here as well stuff that same with word</text><text start="1279.52" dur="3.2">i remember being a lot more fully</text><text start="1280.72" dur="3.839">featured than um</text><text start="1282.72" dur="4.079">notepad for example all the different um</text><text start="1284.559" dur="7.281">you know toolbars here that we&amp;#39;ve gotten</text><text start="1286.799" dur="5.041">the different fonts and everything</text><text start="1292.4" dur="4.159">yeah forgot about wordpad</text><text start="1295.44" dur="3.84">and there are quite a lot of fonts</text><text start="1296.559" dur="4.321">installed by default again all the ones</text><text start="1299.28" dur="3.12">you would have got on there</text><text start="1300.88" dur="3.52">earlier versions of windows by the looks</text><text start="1302.4" dur="4.08">of it administrative</text><text start="1304.4" dur="3.92">tools again same as windows we&amp;#39;ve got a</text><text start="1306.48" dur="4.079">few games in here i mean yeah come on</text><text start="1308.32" dur="3.28">they had to install solitaire didn&amp;#39;t</text><text start="1310.559" dur="2.881">they</text><text 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dur="2.48">install everything that we kind of need</text><text start="1341.44" dur="4.4">to</text><text start="1342.24" dur="5.2">get us set up and going is installed um</text><text start="1345.84" dur="4.64">but we&amp;#39;ll try installing a few of these</text><text start="1347.44" dur="4.64">third-party applications now now 7-zip</text><text start="1350.48" dur="3.679">is something that i always install</text><text start="1352.08" dur="4">in windows straight away so we&amp;#39;ll get</text><text start="1354.159" dur="4.081">that abby word</text><text start="1356.08" dur="4">which um a snappy and open source word</text><text start="1358.24" dur="3.28">processor i&amp;#39;ve have used that before</text><text start="1360.08" dur="3.52">i think it is like an open source</text><text start="1361.52" dur="6">version or clone of um</text><text start="1363.6" dur="4.88">microsoft word um adobe air yeah i think</text><text start="1367.52" dur="4.24">we need that one</text><text 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on install here and it will ask me</text><text start="1459.039" dur="2.401">where</text><text start="1459.6" dur="4.559">i want to install them yeah in program</text><text start="1461.44" dur="4.32">files same as we would on windows</text><text start="1464.159" dur="3.041">all right so i&amp;#39;ve got to say i was</text><text start="1465.76" dur="3.12">really impressed with the install</text><text start="1467.2" dur="4.32">process from the package manager</text><text start="1468.88" dur="3.12">everything automatically downloaded no</text><text start="1471.52" dur="2.48">errors</text><text start="1472" dur="3.76">it incrementally installed everything</text><text start="1474" dur="3.2">and it looks like the programs i</text><text start="1475.76" dur="3.68">selected have all installed</text><text start="1477.2" dur="4.24">successfully and as you can see there</text><text start="1479.44" dur="2.88">are a bunch of them on the desktop</text><text start="1481.44" dur="3.76">already</text><text start="1482.32" dur="4.479">and so we&amp;#39;ll try audacity the audio</text><text start="1485.2" dur="2.719">editor that i mentioned which i have</text><text start="1486.799" dur="4.48">used before</text><text start="1487.919" dur="4.961">um and that appears to be working</text><text start="1491.279" dur="3.201">just fine in here obviously a little bit</text><text start="1492.88" dur="4.48">cramped due to the</text><text start="1494.48" dur="4.72">limited screen resolution um i haven&amp;#39;t</text><text start="1497.36" dur="3.6">got a microphone or anything attached so</text><text start="1499.2" dur="2.32">um yeah i imagine that&amp;#39;s not going to</text><text start="1500.96" dur="1.92">work</text><text start="1501.52" dur="4.159">but it does look like you know the the</text><text start="1502.88" dur="5.76">user interface is working fine and</text><text start="1505.679" dur="4.801">we can use the program i imagine so</text><text start="1508.64" dur="2.8">let&amp;#39;s try something that we can actually</text><text start="1510.48" dur="3.6">um</text><text start="1511.44" dur="3.52">demo on here libreoffice now this is</text><text start="1514.08" dur="3.199">actually quite a</text><text start="1514.96" dur="3.44">big office suite so the fact that</text><text start="1517.279" dur="3.441">they&amp;#39;ve got this</text><text start="1518.4" dur="3.84">installing them working fine in here and</text><text start="1520.72" dur="4.64">but i imagine it&amp;#39;s got quite a lot of</text><text start="1522.24" dur="4.24">dependencies um the windows version of</text><text start="1525.36" dur="3.76">it</text><text start="1526.48" dur="4.4">it&amp;#39;s going to be a good test of it so</text><text start="1529.12" dur="5.36">yeah as you can see we can</text><text start="1530.88" dur="6.399">make a document a spreadsheet a</text><text start="1534.48" dur="6.079">presentation or a graphic let&amp;#39;s try just</text><text start="1537.279" dur="3.28">the standard writer document</text><text start="1541.12" dur="3.919">okay we have that weird blue bar</text><text start="1543.6" dur="2.64">appearing there i&amp;#39;m not sure what that</text><text start="1545.039" dur="3.271">is i&amp;#39;m not a</text><text start="1546.24" dur="5.15">libreoffice user normally</text><text start="1548.31" dur="3.08">[Music]</text><text start="1554.08" dur="3.76">yeah that appears to be working just</text><text start="1556.96" dur="3.52">fine in here</text><text start="1557.84" dur="4">um definitely usable and i&amp;#39;ve mentioned</text><text start="1560.48" dur="4.799">in videos before</text><text start="1561.84" dur="4">i do use um microsoft office 365 through</text><text start="1565.279" dur="2.161">work</text><text start="1565.84" dur="3.52">and i use you know google drive and i</text><text start="1567.44" dur="3.839">use friend office but really</text><text start="1569.36" dur="3.439">for the kind of things i do in a word</text><text 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firefox here as</text><text start="1600.24" dur="5.039">well</text><text start="1602" dur="4.159">go away um which hopefully we can now</text><text start="1605.279" dur="3.52">access</text><text start="1606.159" dur="3.441">websites using so it is obviously an</text><text start="1608.799" dur="3.441">older version</text><text start="1609.6" dur="4.4">of firefox but it should still work with</text><text start="1612.24" dur="3.52">a lot of sites i imagine you have not</text><text start="1614" dur="2.799">seen that user interface on firefox for</text><text start="1615.76" dur="5.84">a couple of years</text><text start="1616.799" dur="6.801">when is this from about firefox</text><text start="1621.6" dur="3.92">yeah there&amp;#39;s no year on here but i&amp;#39;ve</text><text start="1623.6" dur="5.28">got a feeling it was</text><text start="1625.52" dur="3.36">at least a decade ago</text><text start="1629.279" dur="4.241">there is an update available okay and</text><text start="1631.84" 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dur="3.76">probably because of the</text><text start="1793.679" dur="3.681">low screen resolution but it looks like</text><text start="1796.159" dur="2.64">it is</text><text start="1797.36" dur="4.88">usable in here we can create a new</text><text start="1798.799" dur="5.521">document and we do get the message that</text><text start="1802.24" dur="3.679">uh there we go we&amp;#39;ve got our first blue</text><text start="1804.32" dur="3.28">screen of death</text><text start="1805.919" dur="3.36">um right in the middle of trying to do</text><text start="1807.6" dur="4.319">something in google drive again</text><text start="1809.279" dur="3.52">you know like i said it&amp;#39;s alpha software</text><text start="1811.919" dur="2.721">so</text><text start="1812.799" dur="3.76">these things are to be expected so we&amp;#39;ll</text><text start="1814.64" dur="3.919">do a quick reboot of the machine</text><text start="1816.559" dur="3.36">and a quick reboot later and we are back</text><text 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i don&amp;#39;t</text><text start="1844.159" dur="7.76">think ran the installer it just used</text><text start="1847.919" dur="5.76">winzip to place the files somewhere on</text><text start="1851.919" dur="5.76">the hard disk here but i&amp;#39;m not exactly</text><text start="1853.679" dur="5.761">sure where so let&amp;#39;s have a look around</text><text start="1857.679" dur="3.921">and there it is we&amp;#39;ve detected you&amp;#39;re</text><text start="1859.44" dur="3.68">not running in 256 it will still run</text><text start="1861.6" dur="3.919">yeah we&amp;#39;re running in true color mode so</text><text start="1863.12" dur="5.76">that should be fine</text><text start="1865.519" dur="7.04">and f2 to start the game</text><text start="1868.88" dur="3.679">where noah i know how to play hover</text><text start="1873.039" dur="5.12">and again that is running really really</text><text start="1875.519" dur="4.88">smoothly in here</text><text start="1878.159" dur="3.52">actually nicer than when i uh run this</text><text start="1880.399" dur="4.321">inside a</text><text start="1881.679" dur="6.081">windows 98 virtual machine in</text><text start="1884.72" dur="7.36">a video recently so</text><text start="1887.76" dur="6.88">yeah these early 3d windows</text><text start="1892.08" dur="3.839">games appear to run quite nicely inside</text><text start="1894.64" dur="3.279">reactos</text><text start="1895.919" dur="4.161">so i downloaded and installed a bunch of</text><text start="1897.919" dur="2.961">different programs from the applications</text><text start="1900.08" dur="3.599">manager</text><text start="1900.88" dur="3.84">with varying degrees of success now</text><text start="1903.679" dur="3.12">apart from the odd</text><text start="1904.72" dur="4">graphical glitch here and there i&amp;#39;ve got</text><text start="1906.799" dur="4.48">to say most of them ran</text><text start="1908.72" dur="4.4">really well and these are programs that</text><text start="1911.279" 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happens a lot more</text><text start="1938.96" dur="3.439">when using react os than it did on the</text><text start="1941.039" dur="4.321">older versions of windows</text><text start="1942.399" dur="4.561">in my experience but again this is alpha</text><text start="1945.36" dur="3.439">quality software</text><text start="1946.96" dur="3.36">so there you go that&amp;#39;s been react os</text><text start="1948.799" dur="2.801">just a little demo to kind of show you</text><text start="1950.32" dur="4.32">where it&amp;#39;s at the moment</text><text start="1951.6" dur="6.4">and uh to answer the title to this video</text><text start="1954.64" dur="5.68">can it replace windows in 2021 um</text><text start="1958" dur="3.679">well obviously not um and really to be</text><text start="1960.32" dur="2.32">honest it probably couldn&amp;#39;t even replace</text><text start="1961.679" dur="4.081">windows in</text><text start="1962.64" dur="4.56">2001 in its current state but</text><text 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is</text><text start="1987.519" dur="3.52">to replace something like windows and</text><text start="1989.6" dur="1.76">when you look at microsoft and they&amp;#39;ve</text><text start="1991.039" dur="3.601">got</text><text start="1991.36" dur="4.4">1.3 million programmers working on</text><text start="1994.64" dur="4.32">windows 10</text><text start="1995.76" dur="4.32">800 000 designers and 2 billion people</text><text start="1998.96" dur="3.12">testing it out</text><text start="2000.08" dur="4.079">and i know from reading the forums and</text><text start="2002.08" dur="3.599">comments from the reactos team</text><text start="2004.159" dur="3.281">they are literally a handful of</text><text start="2005.679" dur="3.921">programmers many of them</text><text start="2007.44" dur="3.119">doing in their spare time for no money</text><text start="2009.6" dur="4.24">so when you</text><text start="2010.559" dur="3.84">compare microsoft&amp;#39;s resources to react</text><text start="2013.84" dur="2.16">os</text><text start="2014.399" dur="3.12">the fact that they&amp;#39;ve even got to the</text><text start="2016" dur="2">stage where it is kind of getting</text><text start="2017.519" dur="3.52">comparable</text><text start="2018" dur="5.519">to windows 2000 i think is a</text><text start="2021.039" dur="4">massive massive achievement so i&amp;#39;m</text><text start="2023.519" dur="2.801">certainly not going to crap on them for</text><text start="2025.039" dur="2.64">the progress that they&amp;#39;ve made over the</text><text start="2026.32" dur="3.44">last couple of decades</text><text start="2027.679" dur="3.921">now i do think as well that by the time</text><text start="2029.76" dur="3.6">they get to the stage this is the big</text><text start="2031.6" dur="3.52">question i&amp;#39;ve got not whether</text><text start="2033.36" dur="3.36">react os can get to the point that it</text><text start="2035.12" dur="3.2">could be a windows 10 replacement</text><text start="2036.72" dur="3.36">but it&amp;#39;s whether or not it&amp;#39;s really</text><text start="2038.32" dur="3.839">needed today and you know</text><text start="2040.08" dur="3.52">i see windows becoming less and less</text><text start="2042.159" dur="3.041">relevant as time goes on</text><text start="2043.6" dur="3.52">even ignoring the fact that most of us</text><text start="2045.2" dur="4.479">today do our general</text><text start="2047.12" dur="3.519">daily computing if you like using a</text><text start="2049.679" dur="2.321">smartphone</text><text start="2050.639" dur="4">and then when we get into the office to</text><text start="2052" dur="3.919">do actual work i mean there are so many</text><text start="2054.639" dur="3.44">different solutions now</text><text start="2055.919" dur="3.76">and even for the general user i mean if</text><text start="2058.079" dur="2">you watch my channel you&amp;#39;re probably the</text><text start="2059.679" dur="1.841">same</text><text 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were like surf</text><text start="2082.24" dur="2.96">the web</text><text start="2083.119" dur="3.681">do a bit of shopping on amazon go on</text><text start="2085.2" dur="3.6">facebook</text><text start="2086.8" dur="3.359">maybe write your document or email using</text><text start="2088.8" dur="3.2">google docs</text><text start="2090.159" dur="3.68">and my advice to them now is you know by</text><text start="2092" dur="3.839">chromebook i think you know there&amp;#39;s no</text><text start="2093.839" dur="3.52">real reason for people to use windows</text><text start="2095.839" dur="3.441">outside of a corporate environment and</text><text start="2097.359" dur="2.641">even that i mean there are efforts out</text><text start="2099.28" dur="2">there like you know</text><text start="2100" dur="3.359">you may know that i&amp;#39;m involved in the</text><text start="2101.28" dur="2.799">friend os project which actually takes</text><text start="2103.359" dur="3.921">the whole</text><text 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ever gets to the level where</text><text start="2129.839" dur="2.721">they&amp;#39;re porting stuff like photoshop and</text><text start="2131.44" dur="3.679">the adobe suite</text><text start="2132.56" dur="4.4">over to linux i mean i can&amp;#39;t really see</text><text start="2135.119" dur="3.521">why anyone would choose to use windows</text><text start="2136.96" dur="4">if the applications you need</text><text start="2138.64" dur="3.28">exist on something like linux so my real</text><text start="2140.96" dur="2.639">question isn&amp;#39;t</text><text start="2141.92" dur="4">whether reactor west will ever get to</text><text start="2143.599" dur="4">the stage of replacing windows 10</text><text start="2145.92" dur="3.679">it&amp;#39;s whether it really needs to or not</text><text start="2147.599" dur="3.121">so um yeah maybe some controversial</text><text start="2149.599" dur="2.641">thoughts in there i don&amp;#39;t know</text><text start="2150.72" dur="3.44">i&amp;#39;d love to 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