ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck
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ReactOS remains my biggest "But why?" tech story for the past ~20 years.
Linux doesn't work for most people, and Windows and Mac are corporate. I hope ReactOS succeeds.
I mean I wish them the best, but they've been chasing Windows for decades, at what point exactly is this "success" to be measured?
When they're successful, it will be a good day. For now, it's all about having fun with the journey.
Surely contributing to Wine and running their windows apps on Linux would yield better faster results than re-implement Windows from scratch. I don't quite see who the target audience is
I agree with you, an open-source OS that could run anything Windows-related would probably be preferable for the average user over switching to something completely new and hoping you can find a workaround or compatibility layer, simply because it's a lot more work. If ReactOS had been around and on par with Linux 20 years ago (oh gosh I'm that old...), I probably would've gone with that on the old PowerBook my grandma gave me rather than Ubuntu, just because I'd been using Windows. At the time, installing Ubuntu was, while the easiest way to get Linux, still not very easy, and I did bork the first hard drive. That said, I don't regret my decision, and I probably wouldn't ever go back to Windows, but I might still give ReactOS a try!
If it does, a corporation will buy and use it
It's FOSS. I'd imagine people would fork it, because fuck it
You can't buy it, it's open source.
No, they won't.
The value in Windows is no longer Windows. The cost of Windows license to a business is trivial. It's all the associated services. Office, teams, SharePoint, active directory, Outlook. And the ecosystems and support that exist for them all.
Any realistic business that tries to be competitive by not paying for Windows licenses and instead buying this, is utterly delusional.
ReactOS is funded by the state Duma of the Russian Federation. If you want the OS to succeed you can hope for the end of the Ukrainian invasion.
Otherwise the OS can fucking die a slow miserable death along with the Russians in Ukraine for all we care.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14899507
Lobbying for support in Russia
Between 2007 and 2015, Russian ReactOS contributors representing the ReactOS Foundation made efforts at lobbying the Russian federal government. As of April 2019, these efforts have not yielded government support for ReactOS, and the Russia-based ReactOS Foundation has been dissolved since November 2015.
The ReactOS Foundation was established on June 5, 2002 and was based in Saransk, Russia.
I didn't understand your point so I thought to reiterate with proof that ReactOS is Russian state sponsored and continues to be.
Was. Existed. Past tense. Your own links show that after its dissolution in 2015, that foundation was replaced with a registered German charity, so where are you getting "continues to be sponsored by Russia"? And even when it was around, all they succeeded in doing was showing off the project and asking for money. As far as I know, they failed at that. Even if they hadn't, that doesn't automatically damn ReactOS as some kind of KGB operation.
Mr. Butts, you sweet sweet summer child.
First thing about ReactOS that makes any kind of sense.
Honestly they should have just gone the North Korea route and contributed upstream to WINE.
North Korea did what?
I meant roll their own Linux distro, and if they want Windows compatibility, they can go tweak WINE.
It's russian? Then fuck this os
I hate these types of reactions.
The answer to that dead ass question is always "why not?"
There's a lot of WinXP software out there that people bought licenses for and still want to use.
The BEST Need for Speed EVER!!!
Shift works fine on modern windows and proton what are you talking about.
Nothing worng with running XP in a VM or network isolated machine. Stability will be more important to these people than anything.
embedded probably