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Genuine question: What advantage does ReactOS provide over Wine? https://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE https://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE explains a bit but still d

Genuine question: What advantage does ReactOS provide over Wine? https://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE https://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE explains a bit but still doesn't answer the question. P.S. oh by the way, the developers of both projects are apparently collaborating and ReactOS uses Wine's DLLs for their userspace, so my question is not meant to criticise the "double-effort" or anything like that.

pnloyd 9y ago
I've wondered this myself, anyone know if ReactOS can run anything wine can't? I tried wine-develolment a few days ago and 3D performance is still rather spotty (amongst all the other usuall hiccups). That being said is has helped me play a few games with a decent experience.
- Kliment 9y ago
  Drivers for one - reactos can be used for Windows driver testing, wine cannot.
Endy 9y ago
Well, for one, you don't need to deal with setting up a separate Linux OS.
exikyut 9y ago
Primarily support for drivers, I think. https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_History https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_History and https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History were interesting to look through.
0xcde4c3db 9y ago
The big-picture advantage is that Windows users can switch to it without becoming Linux users first. Many people actually like (some version of) Windows and would prefer to keep using it, but have issues with licensing or Microsoft's stewardship of the platform. There are also some technical advantages for applications that require driver code. Examples include specialized software with intrusive DRM (where either the DRM is so beastly or interest in the software is so narrow that there's no crack; ISTR that Cubase is sort of legendary for this) or software that drives industrial equipment. Wine will probably never run this sort of thing.
_o_ 9y ago
I don't know for you but wine never really worked for me. For any app that I would like to use, there is some quirk, after a week of trying I gave up on skype for bussiness and rather run a virtualbox just to be able to use it.

pnloyd 9y ago

I've wondered this myself, anyone know if ReactOS can run anything wine can't? I tried wine-develolment a few days ago and 3D performance is still rather spotty (amongst all the other usuall hiccups). That being said is has helped me play a few games with a decent experience.

Kliment 9y ago
Drivers for one - reactos can be used for Windows driver testing, wine cannot.

Endy 9y ago

Well, for one, you don't need to deal with setting up a separate Linux OS.

exikyut 9y ago

Primarily support for drivers, I think. https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_History https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_History and https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History were interesting to look through.

0xcde4c3db 9y ago

The big-picture advantage is that Windows users can switch to it without becoming Linux users first. Many people actually like (some version of) Windows and would prefer to keep using it, but have issues with licensing or Microsoft's stewardship of the platform. There are also some technical advantages for applications that require driver code. Examples include specialized software with intrusive DRM (where either the DRM is so beastly or interest in the software is so narrow that there's no crack; ISTR that Cubase is sort of legendary for this) or software that drives industrial equipment. Wine will probably never run this sort of thing.

_o_ 9y ago

I don't know for you but wine never really worked for me. For any app that I would like to use, there is some quirk, after a week of trying I gave up on skype for bussiness and rather run a virtualbox just to be able to use it.