![]() ReactOS reminds me of when my computer was My Computer and not some corporate cloud tentacle. The explorernew shell has actually been bundled for quite some time in the nightly builds but we never really advertised that. I don't mind the Windows "clunkyness" as much as I dislike the ads, the telemetry and the churn. What if XP or 7 was just updated to support new graphics, 64-bit, new processors (ARM)? I wouldn't mind switching to an open source OS which was all that. Parting thoughts: ReactOS is very alluring to me because it doesn't churn and chase the latest, which is tiring in Windows and Mac, but also in Linux land. NET work, even in a limited capacity, would open up ReactOS as a target to many more developers, useful for pros (embedded) and enthusiasts alike. Everything needs a story to tell what it's about. Hardware support is nice to have, but you could deploy ReactOS on modern hardware by booting Linux as essentially a hypervisor and run nothing but ReactOS in thin VM at boot.Īll projects need marketing, even Open Source ones. Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.8 is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is not recommended for everyday use. NET works (not everything, but the basics) "Marketing" to show you can develop modern apps for ReactOS Most old-school programs just work, and for newly developed Win32 programs, very few tweaks are usually needed to them running on ReactOS. Stability of ReactOS is not inferior to that of Windows. ReactOS is currently still relatively fast and compact. And truth be told, this has been an overall stable experience as I’ve had it on test driving for a good while now (I’m talking about 14 days) and sure as hell, hasn’t failed me yet. The time of the finished system ReactOS, is currently still difficult to estimate. The ReactOS team recently unveiled the most recent version of the OS which is still in Alpha but at version 0.4.13 after a whopping 10 years of development. You know how there are so many false starts of a Linux distribution which will be simple to use, no-nonse, and just be user friendly? (Looking at you, ElementaryOS.) The ReactOS project is currently still in alpha phase, so ReactOS is not recommended for everyday use. ago It's definitely a really cool thing, conceptually. You know how people complain about how Windows adds weird shit and is no longer just an OS, staying out of your way and which you can run applications on? ReactOS may be still in alpha with lots and lots of things left to do, but it's still one of my favorite open-source projects. I think ReactOS has an unfulfilled promise it can't deliver on yet, but is so tantalizingly close. ![]()
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