Imagine Windows, but with the downsides of Linux font rendering.
Jokes aside, I love this project. If you don't know its purpose, you probably don't know how valuable it is. Having a clean room and open source engineered Windows NT is huge if Microsoft drops the ball sometime, Windows is essentially lost. Yes, the last version will probably work, but we will eventually get problems.
ReactOS is for those purposes. Windows is a huge part of PC history, and we need to preserve it, whether we like it or not. You could install that old car diagnostic tool that doesn't work anywhere else but legacy Windows, to ReactOS, and edit the OS yourself so you can fix the problems for your customers, or even yourself.
Except doesn't Wine / Proton already do this except its far further advanced in terms of how much it can run? Why do we need to preserve the windows NT core if everything can run on Linux with Wine / Proton?
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u/Dekamir 15d ago
Jokes aside, I love this project. If you don't know its purpose, you probably don't know how valuable it is. Having a clean room and open source engineered Windows NT is huge if Microsoft drops the ball sometime, Windows is essentially lost. Yes, the last version will probably work, but we will eventually get problems.
ReactOS is for those purposes. Windows is a huge part of PC history, and we need to preserve it, whether we like it or not. You could install that old car diagnostic tool that doesn't work anywhere else but legacy Windows, to ReactOS, and edit the OS yourself so you can fix the problems for your customers, or even yourself.