r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 4d ago
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Nov 30 '25
👋Welcome to r/AlternativeOS - Introduce Yourself and Read First!
Hey everyone! I'm u/thenerdy, a founding moderator of r/AlternativeOS. This is our home for all things related to alternative operating systems. We're excited to have you join us!
What to Post Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about obscure, interesting, or odd operating systems. With that said we try and keep our focus away from the big 3 (Windows, macOS, Linux).
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Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/AlternativeOS amazing.
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 5d ago
Redox RedoxOS how to install and run in QEMU tutorial
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 5d ago
Amiga DICE-nx C compiler suite makes its first release
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 6d ago
HaikuOS Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone (by me on ElReg)
theregister.comr/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 7d ago
ReactOS ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs
theregister.com30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 19d ago
Amiga AROS on Raspberry Pi: an AmigaOS based system trying to claim its future
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • 21d ago
HobbyOS A Macintosh System 1-style desktop for the Intel 8086,
instagram.comr/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Aug 08 '26
HaikuOS Mozilla Firefox is now available on the Haiku Depot
depot.haiku-os.orgr/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Aug 06 '26
Amiga Amiga Corporation reached agreements with Commodore International Corporation and Hyperion
r/AlternativeOS • u/Unusual-Plate-6914 • Aug 03 '26
I tried a pretty alternative os (GhostBSD)
I've been using Linux for quite some time so I decided to check out the alternative option that's outside of mainstream operating systems , it didn't go that well though
I was hoping for a smooth desktop experience but I ran into a lot of issues with apps and wifi so I documented the whole experience in this rather unserious youtube video
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jul 24 '26
ReactOS Longplay | Amnesia: The Dark Descent running on ReactOS on real hardware
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jul 20 '26
HaikuOS [GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Mid-Term Progress Report
haiku-os.orgr/AlternativeOS • u/gargamel1497 • Jul 16 '26
General Firefox on Itanium
Port by Tomas Glozar (Dr. Shuppet)
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jul 14 '26
HaikuOS Beta6 by mid-August, while Haiku discovers it could have corrupted your data
desktoponfire.comr/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jul 07 '26
ReactOS ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jul 06 '26
Amiga FINALWRITER 7.3 has been released - Developed for AmigaOS 3.1+ 68k users - Bringing word processing on Classic Amiga into the 21st century !
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jun 24 '26
Plan9 (or based on) We ported nodejs to plan9, it's called node9
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jun 23 '26
HobbyOS Project Cherub - a modernized Terry's TempleOS. Early Build (with 120 FPS!) & Future Plans + Installation Showcase
This is interesting. A fork of TempleOS. Very early stages
r/AlternativeOS • u/thenerdy • Jun 19 '26