NooneAtAll3
something I wondered for a whiledo windows viruses get
ported by such efforts as well?
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> TechSquidTV
Of course. Maybe not successfully but a "virus" is
just software. If it runs software, it runs software,
full stop. Maybe the same APIs are not available or
behave differently, so it may be buggy or
non-functional, but that's true of Half-Life here too.
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> shakna
WannaCry was able to successfully run on ReactOS in
2025. Most other virsuses do tend to crash, because
the memory layout is just a tiny bit different, but
yeah, compatibility means compatibility. Lots of
malware comes along for the ride.However, there is a
permissions layer that is more nix than Windows, which
means the first foothold is still better than XP - you
have to choose to execute the file. Self-running
things don't tend to infect systems.Its not a panacea,
and there is a risk factor. And there aren't a lot of
antivirus systems that can run correctly under
ReactOS, because they freak out and think the OS is
the malware, because they're scanning hashes for
Windows, not another system.But for a hobby OS,
keeping hardware and software accessible after the
rest of the world broke access, it still works.
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> augusto-moura
Some, but not all, most don't. Ideally they would all
work, ReactOS doesn't make a priority on being a
"safer" option, just an open source option
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> canyp
Somewhere in the docs they state that they must also
recreate whatever bugs the API has, otherwise
applications written with those bugs as an (implicit)
assumption could misbehave.
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> naturalmovement
Maybe worry about Linux malware which is a major
problem right now everyone is in huge denial about,
instead of throwing shade at a hobby OS emulating a 25
year old version of Windows.ReactOS isn't the one that
just had one of its package repos owned (again).
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> > nvme0n1p1
Isn't it funny how such incidents on Linux are
rare enough that they make headlines, but on
Windows that's been the baseline expected state of
things for so long that nobody bats an eye
anymore.Btw if you're running an OS that's never
had a malware incident, please, tell us!
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> > nvr219
What's the major Linux malware problem that
everyone is ignoring
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> > > shakna
AUR got hit recently [0], by what looks like
more work of TeamPCP and friends.EDIT: Worth
noting, Arch ain't hosted on AUR. That's the
community side only.[0]
https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-maliciou
s-packages-inc...
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> > > > Grombobulous
I would still note that this is not some
kind of unique problem to Linux. There
have been documented instances of malware
making it to the Play Store, which is
supposed to have a much more rigorous
vetting process than AUR and costs actual
money to publish on.
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ajross
While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean,
Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically
everything with full acceleration)...I think what is being
claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this
is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce
8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the
API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
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> chadgpt3
Indeed. ReactOS is to the full Windows stack what Wine
is to the userland Windows API.
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> himata4113
I mean they reimplemented directx without vulkan,
that's indeed in a league of their own. wine/proton
relies on opengl/vulkan to do anything.
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> > ddtaylor
Wine has had many different DirectX backends over
the decades, including one before Vulkan existed
obviously.
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> > > himata4113
All of them relied on translation (ex:
opengl). Proton specifically is focused on
dx->vulkan.
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> wolvoleo
I wouldn't call it laughable. ReactOS was not created
only to run half-life. It's just one of their many
impressive achievements.
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> da_chicken
> While this is sort of laughable out of context (I
mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run
basically everything with full acceleration)...Eh.
It's sort of like saying FreeDOS is laughable because
DOSBox exists. I think that's missing the point.
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alaskahoffman
reactos has been in development for 28 years and it can
run half-life on real hardware. that is approximately how
long half-life 1 itself has existed in the first place!
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