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Who here is actually using reactos? I try it once in a while but am never able to run my old legacy apps on it. Eg. games, accounting or other old windows apps.

navjack27 7y ago
Well it's not really meant to be used. It's nowhere near ready for everyday use.
- strategarius 7y ago
  Maybe it never meant to be used? Its development started soon after Windows 95 release, as we all see in 20+ years of progress not even close to beta
  - rvnx 7y ago
    It's logical, Microsoft has more ressources and runs faster than them to deliver because they have more people and money. You cannot catch a flying jet with a single engine plane but I admire the effort, it's well done.
- anthk 7y ago
  It can work relatively well under VirtualBox.
  - julenuri 7y ago
    And it does in my Dell Optiplex 3010 (without BSOD). Maybe in the near future the motherboard, multiprocessor, batteries and Audio drivers, the different .dll modules that should be working, will work. Maybe.
    - anthk 7y ago
      Sadly it panics under Bochs, but maybe I have to use another CPU definition. Testing VooDoo support would be great.
- jamesu 7y ago
  The current release hasn’t BSOD’d on me yet, so they’re at least headed in the right direction. I’m still a bit mystified how they still have the same graphical glitches the ancient version of Firefox they support. It would also be nice if they had VMware drivers out of the box, but given how quickly the project progresses I may be asking for too much in that regard.
zozbot234 7y ago
The point of ReactOS is not really to run legacy apps - Wine on Linux is enough for that. It's to run legacy proprietary drivers, for hardware that will never be properly supported on Linux absent a tedious reverse-engineering effort. (Similar to running LineageOS on a phone instead of a far more compelling PostmarketOS.)
- bestnameever 7y ago
  From the What is ReactOS page: > ReactOS is an operating system. > Our own main features are: > ReactOS is able to run Windows software > ReactOS is able to run Windows drivers > ReactOS looks-like Windows > ReactOS is free and open source https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/ https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/

navjack27 7y ago

Well it's not really meant to be used. It's nowhere near ready for everyday use.

strategarius 7y ago
Maybe it never meant to be used? Its development started soon after Windows 95 release, as we all see in 20+ years of progress not even close to beta
- rvnx 7y ago
  It's logical, Microsoft has more ressources and runs faster than them to deliver because they have more people and money. You cannot catch a flying jet with a single engine plane but I admire the effort, it's well done.
anthk 7y ago
It can work relatively well under VirtualBox.
- julenuri 7y ago
  And it does in my Dell Optiplex 3010 (without BSOD). Maybe in the near future the motherboard, multiprocessor, batteries and Audio drivers, the different .dll modules that should be working, will work. Maybe.
  - anthk 7y ago
    Sadly it panics under Bochs, but maybe I have to use another CPU definition. Testing VooDoo support would be great.
jamesu 7y ago
The current release hasn’t BSOD’d on me yet, so they’re at least headed in the right direction. I’m still a bit mystified how they still have the same graphical glitches the ancient version of Firefox they support. It would also be nice if they had VMware drivers out of the box, but given how quickly the project progresses I may be asking for too much in that regard.

zozbot234 7y ago

The point of ReactOS is not really to run legacy apps - Wine on Linux is enough for that. It's to run legacy proprietary drivers, for hardware that will never be properly supported on Linux absent a tedious reverse-engineering effort. (Similar to running LineageOS on a phone instead of a far more compelling PostmarketOS.)

bestnameever 7y ago
From the What is ReactOS page: > ReactOS is an operating system. > Our own main features are: > ReactOS is able to run Windows software > ReactOS is able to run Windows drivers > ReactOS looks-like Windows > ReactOS is free and open source https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/ https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/