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Why Windows? Why not ReactOS?

• yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  Windows, for its many faults, is feature complete and officially supports ARM today. Neither is true of ReactOS. Thus, it's currently much easier and more useful to port windows.
• mschuster91 4y ago
  ReactOS is nowhere near enough the quality you'd need - you don't want to waste time figuring out if you are fighting a bug in ReactOS or in your own code.
  • SyneRyder 4y ago
    Agreed. Just last night I tried installing ReactOS in a Parallels VM on Intel, and their ISO installer couldn't get beyond "Failed to open txtsetup.sif" at the very start. The last ReactOS ISO I could get to work was 0.4.11 (three releases / three years ago). It's a worry that such a critical showstopper regression has gone unpatched over 3 years. 0.4.11 did run a lot of Windows software that I use (including my own) & I was impressed with what they'd achieved, but it regularly corrupted the file system and required a full reformat & reinstall, so not something I could actively use.
  • sassy_quat 4y ago
    If ReactOS crashes, it is quite clear where the problem lies, but I would'nt wait on them to fix it.
• buffington 4y ago
  Why ReactOS? Why not AmigaOS? Why not any other OS? The OP wants to boot Windows on an M1. That's why.