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Linux has far greater hardware support than ReactOS does.

• okanat 2y ago
  Maybe we should fund ReactOS for end-user applications. Win32 is well established and isn't going anywhere. So why not take advantage of Microsoft's API design effort
  • squiggleblaz 2y ago
    But who is "we"? It might have been valuable to games makers, but Wine/Linux based systems seems to be adequate for them. So who is left?
    • DeathArrow 2y ago
      >So who is left? People who like and need Windows apps, people who want to have an out of the box experience when running those apps, people who don't like the loss of performance when using Wine, people who generally like Windows but want to have an alternative in case that dislike where Microsoft is heading with Windows development. That is a lot of people, me included. But since Windows experience is somehow still tolerable, there aren't many willing to invest time or money into ReactOS. There are no corporate sponsors since you don't make money from desktop OS-es unless you use them to sell expensive hardware like Apple did. Someone like Valve could have sponsored it but they though they can reach their goals with Wine while spending much less money. Another sponsor for ReactOS can be a state actor like China or EU, somebody with deep pockets who wants and needs to run Windows software but don't want their desktop to be under US control.
      • okanat 2y ago
        Any people who prefer Windows' primary design choices over Unix ones too. > Another sponsor for ReactOS can be a state actor like China or EU, somebody with deep pockets who wants and needs to run Windows software but don't want their desktop to be under US control. I would love to see EU to do this actually. Maybe we should pitch this as citizens.