Thanks for reading! You can check out more of this blog or my YouTube channel. ![]() Sometimes slow an unstable, mostly depending on the apps.Generic video drivers are slow and support no advanced features.Sound is not working (Windows drivers don’t work).USB is still not working (USB storage, mouse, etc) but there exists a patch with USB support that should be added into the main releases in the futureĮdit: you can find vgal’s USB patches here on his Russian blog and it should enable to boot from USB drive:.On 2 of the machines I tried, the boot process eventually failed with 'Fatal System Error 0x0000007b' in the USB stack. I believe the system stability has been improved over the previous version 0.4.9 because I did not get any OS crashes expect for incompatible drivers I wasn't able to get a live ReactOS actually running from USB.Some apps that worked: 7zip, Wordpad, Excel viewer, CPU-Z, Firefox 48, Opera, Opensonic, SimCity 3000, Pingus, etc.App-manager is included with a range of free preselected and compatible Windows apps just like in Linux (requires Internet).Ethernet is working now but required some hands on magic to activate the drivers without crashing the OS (and I forgot the exact steps that it took me).Basics like screen, keyboard, TrackPoint, DVD work fine.Compatible with some Windows drivers and apps (trial and error so far).Gone are the days of waiting for checkdisk after a crash. Drivers are listed about half way down on the page. Fast install and boot with no problems using default settings and the Btrfs file system that is much more robust than the outdated FAT32 format in ROS 0.4.9. Laptop requirement: If your laptop does not have a RS232 port, then will need to buy the needed usb cable to connect the Tech II to the laptop, and make sure to install the needed USB driver into the the XP shell as well.Let me summarize my experience, some of the pros are: Playing YouTube videos on ROS 0.4.10 in FF48 (a bit slow and screen tearing) ReactOS download Installing ReactOS - ReactOS Wiki. The included app-manager had some free Windows software available like Firefox 48, Opera, LibreOffice or Diablo II if you have an Internet connection. explains how to install ReactOS on hardware without burning CDs, USB Boot Sticks. ![]() How do you get your standard Windows drivers on the system? Burning a driver CD with Ethernet, video and audio drivers had to do the job. To start our journey you have to visit and download the latest iso file (just a bit over 100MB) and burn it unto a CD because there is no official USB boot support yet. The tool will run on Ubuntu and Debian-based distros, plus some others. ![]() If you're already on Linux, you might try mkusb instead. One option is Rufus, a Windows app that supports creating live Linux USB sticks with persistent storage. This T430 is more modern and has a Core i7 3610QM, 16 GB RAM and the Intel HD 4000 iGPU. To make this work, you will need a compatible program to perform the installation. Will ReactOS eventually more successful than Linux in conquering the desktop? ROS 0.4.10 running on a ThinkPad T430Ĭheck out my test with ROS on an older ThinkPad T23 and ROS 0.4.9 on a T430s as well. It is in alpha stage for decades now but is making steady progress in the last years. ReactOS is a Windows compatible OS that is supposed to eventually replace the original.
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