How viable is ReactOS as a Windows replacement at this day and age? I remember using it around 3-4 years ago and it was decent but some programs were still very buggy
>>107477278It's not viable. There aren't any real use cases and it's extremely unstable. You'd be better just using Linux + Wine if you won't use Windows
The surface idea of ReactOS sounds great. It's Linux, but also has total compatibility with Windows and implements a perfect reconstruction of the Windows API. If only that were the case. The truth is you're better off just doing what this anon >>107477300 said.
>>107477278Tried using it and I couldn't even get the internet to work out of the box, couldn't be bothered to fiddle with it either. I hope it pans out well, it's just not ready enough yet. This could actually be a Windows replacement since linux is just a bunch of retarded programmer's collection of bent forks. Sure they work, but none are fit to be serving a fine meal on, let alone using as a daily driver.... I want to EAT, not spend all afternoon every afternoon unbending the damn things myself because the fucking factory they come from is apparently "TOO SMART" to have done so themselves...
>>107477419That's not the surface idea.
It's not at all. Just use linux.
>>107477278>How viable is ReactOS as a Windows replacement at this day and age?Never was, never will be. It's just a meme that still exists because it got some russian government funding at one point, but if even russkies ended up dropping it because of how insanely bad it is, that's telling something.
>>107480315pretty much. wine supports more windows programs better than reactos will. all reactos has over wine is;a. it's "technically windows", like it's the closest thing to windows that isn't windowsb. it technically supports windows drivers (wine never will by design)so unless you have some old industrial equipment that needs a super duper special driver /and/ happens to work with reactos /and/ whoever owns it somehow did a 360 in their mind regarding software freedom... just use wine on linuxremember: the userspace of reactos is basically wine, they share a lot of code, which makes sense because wine is mostly a foss recreation of windows userspace, and since reactos is a recreation of all of windows, it too needs a "windows" userspace. so practically speaking you're really comparing linux as a kernel space vs. reactos's kernel space. it doesn't take much research to find out which gets the most attention
>>107480633most of the reason why it sucks is because they refuse to just use the leaked xp source code and build off thatespecially disappointing because russia could just declare US copyright invalid, now that they're in a proxy war with USAbut putler is a cuck so we're stuck with crappy open source shit that doesnt work
>>107480735> the userspace of reactos is basically wineThis is only partially true. Reactos shares some components with wine. But the most important core usermode components are not shared. Interacting with a real NT kernel is very different to emulating NT on linux.
>>107480867sure, that's why i used "basically", though it's possibly not as close as that suggests.point is that i don't expect reactos to surpass wine in userspace application compatibility any time soon, if ever
>>107477419It's not Linux
>>107477419it's not linux nor does it use any part of linux. it is it's own complete operating system.it's also not any other os made to resemble windows, it is complete windows clone. complete, down to the kernel
>>107480992You mean incomplete. If it was complete, it'd be usable.
>>107481039in this context i mean it's completely its' own thing, like it's not built upon any other operating systemthere aren't many os's these days aren't based on something prior, but reactos is one of them
>>107481039>>107481110it's also worth noting that no os is complete in the sense you're suggesting, they're always being improvedlike nobody called windows 95 "incomplete" despite being lucky if you went half a day without a crash. reactos just has a bad position in that it is trying to clone another os exactly (i.e. binary compatibility), so it would need to be more perfect than most to be considered "complete"
>>107477278People who shill this OS are just desperate windows fags, I know because I used to be one. My advice is to stop attaching yourself to this meme and just accept linux or be permanently stuck with windows. Wine+Proton nowadays can run 90% of the windows software you need.
>>107481153yea, i was like that as well. i heard of linux before reactos, but there was a time where i would rather have used reactos than linux, just because reactos promises a familiar system.now though i've used linux long enough that that is what i'm familiar with, and no long see much point in reactos. like "windows" is no longer what i want
>ffw to year 2057>reactos now supports windows 7 programs
>>107482299Your conception is a little flawed. The majority of the code changes between 2003 and 7 was damage. Very little actual useful functionality was added. I don't think ReactOS will ever be usable, but it targeting windows 2003 is not the reason.
>>107480992They would be better of dropping that and using a Linux kernel with a NT personality layer on top of that.
>>107483605This doesn't make any sense. You're just asking for yet another Linux distro.>>107477278I don't think it will be usable before 2030 but some nice improvements have been getting merged in the last couple of years.
>>107477278Just run linux with a virtual box for Windows 7, problem solved. Just prepare your anus for the ram prices.
>>107483655>You're just asking for yet another Linux distro.If you consider android a linux distro then yes.The linux kernel is stable and supports lot's of hardware, this issue has always been userland, and replacing POSEDix with something that actual works like Win32 would do wonders.
>>107477278didn't this get stalled indefinitely after the windows XP source code leaked?
>>107483703At some point they did like an audit and continued work on it.There is some legal shit you have to comply with and one of the requirements is you are not allowed to contribute to ReactOS if you had access to the leaked XP code.
>>107477278Imagine an OS written in React
>Code for much of the operating system you've spent the last decade attempting to reconstruct leaks. >Ban anyone who mentions it on forums and redact all code that was so accurate it was thought to have come from the leak>Now need to make all code "original" enough lest daddy microsoft raises the ban hammer, bans devs from contributing if they are found suspicious to reference it>No one forks, and no trace hidden intent to actually use it on the altnetsThis project is dead by it's management/lack of interest internally and externally, since evidentally it doesn't care about actually acheiving it's goal, which would've instead prompted discussion about changes in logistics rather than an outright denial of usability. They will only do it "legitimately" enough for corpos and cucks to feel comfortable using it, which is to say never, since any dev who doesn't treat it like a toy project would be insane to not reference leaks or info gained from decompilation.
>>107477278I don't see why people even bother trying to redo the NT kernel. People ultimately don't give a shit about the NT kernel, but want win32 programs to run without being locked into whatever Microsoft decides.Linux is infinitely more stable and Wine gives you most of the compatibility you'll need.
>>107483873Because it's more accurate but not practical like I said before a Linux kernel with an NT personality layer ontop of it would have been better.
>>107477278This is a modern-day equivalent of a Russian knockoff Colecovision.
