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dear twitter should i make my own linux distro

“you mean gnu/linux?”

no, win32/linux

i have a very specific vision for the kind of os i want but idk if it's a good use of my time

@hikari I was seriously considering installing ReactOS a month or so ago but when I looked into it it appears ReactOS has just never got that Big Community Love and the compatibility of ReactOS is worse than modern Wine.

So at that point… yeah , if I understand your proposal right that would be a useful thing, and when MS pulls the plug on Win10 there will be demand for that

Maybe u could even reuse the ReactOS shell. Seems "obvious" the ReactOS GUI probably runs in Wine

@mcc

I was seriously considering installing ReactOS a month or so ago but when I looked into it it appears ReactOS has just never got that Big Community Love and the compatibility of ReactOS is worse than modern Wine.

yeah that doesn't surprise me, ReactOS has always been like that. i think the idea of “why not just use Linux underneath” is a long-floated idea in that community actually, i don't know if anyone actually did it though

when MS pulls the plug on Win10 there will be demand for that

you understand my motivations perfectly :)

Maybe u could even reuse the ReactOS shell. Seems "obvious" the ReactOS GUI probably runs in Wine

I WAS ALREADY PLANNING TO DO THIS WE SEE EYE-TO-EYE

@hikari Okay

Here is a serious offer

If you get your project working, I will beta test it

I have an empty partition ready for this and everything

@hikari You have to promise not to install viruses in my BIOS tho

@hikari i don't think so

I think UEFI is just a hard drive partition where various bootloaders live in harmony each in their own subdirectory. I think that's all it is.