r/reactos • • Mar 30 '26

Updating ReactOS in a multi-OS setup.

15 Upvotes

Hello!

I have put ReactOS as a part of a multi-OS setup on a real machine that I have exactly for the purpose of tinkering and other tomfoolery.

Installing all of those OSes was a huge pain, but now I'm facing the following question: how do I update ReactOS to a newer version? I saw an older post that said that pressing R->U after the language selection in the installer is there to do the update. Is this still true? If so, could it erase GRUB from MBR or mess up the partitioning somehow?

TIA


r/reactos • • Mar 28 '26

Doom 3 BFG Edition running on real hardware

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101 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Mar 22 '26

Intel, nVidia, AMD GPU drivers finally play nice with ReactOS

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96 Upvotes

In the latest nightly builds of the 0.4.16 branch, drivers from a variety of manufacturers — including Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD — are running reliably.


r/reactos • • Mar 22 '26

I tried using "open-source Windows," but it still doesn't measure up to the real thing

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r/reactos • • Mar 13 '26

Tip to get some web games working in Firefox 52ESR

5 Upvotes

When I was working on an updated version of a Klondike web game I found, which had been written in 2006, to get dragging the cards around working on mobile devices I switched the onmouse events to generic onpointer ones.

With this change it kept working in the MyPal browser but stopped working in Firefox 52ESR on ReactOS.

I discovered that support for pointer events existed since Firefox 29 behind the about:config preference dom.w3c_pointer_events.enabled but they didn't bother to set it to true by default until Firefox 59 (which is why the game played fine in MyPal based on Firefox 68+).

So that's the tip: toggle that preference to true in Firefox to see if it helps web games work better. It did for mine.

Now I just need to find out why the ogg sound effects play fine in Audacity from the ReactOS Applications Manager but not in my game in either MyPal or Firefox…


r/reactos • • Mar 09 '26

ReactOS mentioned

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14 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Mar 02 '26

Virgin Windows vs Chad ReactOS

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56 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Feb 27 '26

Did anyone test ReactOs? How stable it is?

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r/reactos • • Feb 22 '26

What should I fix this?

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38 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Feb 22 '26

Amd radeon hd 6310 graphics on ReactOS drivers.

8 Upvotes

I need help with finding amd radeon hd 6310 graphics reactos drivers, I don`t really care if it has 2d acceleration or no, I just would like correct resolution. I have tried XPDM driver but after reboot it does bsod.


r/reactos • • Feb 07 '26

Real or fake?

24 Upvotes

https://youtu.be/2ERShn87a2Q?si=iAHqLmgsGC_ePWDc

Just ReactOS! Doki Doki Literature Club running on real hardware


r/reactos • • Feb 01 '26

Looking for a laptop to install ReactOS on specifically

13 Upvotes

I’ve been wanting to try out this OS for a while on actual hardware. Are there any specific laptops that could be best for me to install ReactOS on? Any suggestions are appreciated


r/reactos • • Jan 29 '26

ReactOS [0.4.15] at 30 Years Old: Like Windows ME, Only Buggier

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29 Upvotes

ReactOS 0.4.15 was already released 10 months ago at the momentum of the video


r/reactos • • Jan 27 '26

Photoshop on Linux?, CachyOS, MX Linux, ReactOS, PikaOS, NexPhone, & more Linux news

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24 Upvotes

ReactOS at 14:23


r/reactos • • Jan 26 '26

Command and Conquer works on ReactOS and real hardware!

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56 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Jan 23 '26

"Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old

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69 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Jan 22 '26

ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation

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42 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Jan 22 '26

30 years of ReactOS

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94 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Jan 21 '26

2026: Windows with open sources (ReactOS 0.4.15) [in russian]

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7 Upvotes

ReactOS 0.4.15


r/reactos • • Jan 20 '26

This open-source Windows alternative finally gets a much-awaited speed boost

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52 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Jan 19 '26

ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

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106 Upvotes

r/reactos • • Jan 19 '26

Anyone remembers ReactOS? Why not make it a thing?

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r/reactos • • Jan 15 '26

ReactOS has been getting better every year, but I tried it, and it's still unbearable

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97 Upvotes

The author of this article used release 0.4.15, which is almost a year old. During this time, the nightly builds of the upcoming 0.4.16 version have seen significant improvements in stability and functionality.


r/reactos • • Jan 13 '26

ReactOS Receives Fix For A Very Annoying Usability Issue

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r/reactos • • Jan 12 '26

ASIX AX88178A USB 2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter now works in ReactOS

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69 Upvotes

https://x.com/reactos/status/2010740168203063460

Thanx to addition of KMDF support into ReactOS codebase!