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Why not Linux? I'd worry about stability and security in business context.
by emteycz 5y ago
Why not Linux?
I'd worry about stability and security in business context.
- giancarlostoro 5y agoI dont mean for a literal business, just for personal use, but being able to run stuff like MS Office and such would be nice. Maybe even do Windows development on it for web things. I like the idea of an OS not bloated by "telemetry" basically. I hate tweaking Windows beyond the norm, it breaks things typically.
- alar44 5y agoI just run Windows in a VM if I need to do things with Office that I can't do with the Office for the web products, which isn't very often.
- striking 5y agoThink of ReactOS as a replacement for Windows XP. The selling point is more that it has compatibility with things like NT-based drivers, rather than being the future of compatibility with Windows. I have heard that you can set up Office 365 on Linux under Wine with a few tricks applied.
- marcodiego 5y agoI've got office 365 on linux. Legally. It is buggy and slow.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoYou can run MS Office in Linux via Wine.
- LeFantome 5y agoI would like that too.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoWhy more monoculture? The Linux driver situation is already bad enough, but it is even more terrible that it's practically the ONLY operating system which has some hardware support.
- emteycz 5y agoI support alternative open source OSs as much as I can, but monoculture or not, using ReactOS for business - especially connected to the internet - is asking for problems. Turns out that's not the intention anyways. There is plenty of Linux-certified hardware as well as support plans.
- Hydraulix989 5y agoWhat is the Linux driver situation and how is it bad in ways that other non-Windows FOSS OSes would be able to mitigate?