• Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
      267·
      1 year ago

      Linux doesn’t work for most people, and Windows and Mac are corporate. I hope ReactOS succeeds.

      • WrittenWeird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I mean I wish them the best, but they’ve been chasing Windows for decades, at what point exactly is this “success” to be measured?

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          When they’re successful, it will be a good day. For now, it’s all about having fun with the journey.

      • klangcola@reddthat.comEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        Surely contributing to Wine and running their windows apps on Linux would yield better faster results than re-implement Windows from scratch. I don’t quite see who the target audience is

      • swab148@startrek.websiteEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I agree with you, an open-source OS that could run anything Windows-related would probably be preferable for the average user over switching to something completely new and hoping you can find a workaround or compatibility layer, simply because it’s a lot more work. If ReactOS had been around and on par with Linux 20 years ago (oh gosh I’m that old…), I probably would’ve gone with that on the old PowerBook my grandma gave me rather than Ubuntu, just because I’d been using Windows. At the time, installing Ubuntu was, while the easiest way to get Linux, still not very easy, and I did bork the first hard drive. That said, I don’t regret my decision, and I probably wouldn’t ever go back to Windows, but I might still give ReactOS a try!

        • WrittenWeird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          No, they won’t.

          The value in Windows is no longer Windows. The cost of Windows license to a business is trivial. It’s all the associated services. Office, teams, SharePoint, active directory, Outlook. And the ecosystems and support that exist for them all.

          Any realistic business that tries to be competitive by not paying for Windows licenses and instead buying this, is utterly delusional.

    • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      I hate these types of reactions.

      The answer to that dead ass question is always “why not?”

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.devEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    It’s nice to see that ReactOS continues their slow but steady progress.
    I’ve actually more than once helped test versions of ReactOS for research IT at the university where I work, since for some reason even modern equipment sometimes comes with Windows XP -era software - alongside requirements for network access.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    As part of the effort for enabling UEFI support with ReactOS, an open-source operating system re-implementing binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows, a development build of ReactOS is up and running on Valve’s Steam Deck handheld game console.

    While not suitable for any serious gaming yet with the binary compatibility of ReactOS for modern Windows games still being rather limited especially among Windows device driver support, in early experimental form this open-source OS is up and running on the Steam Deck!

    For months there has been work on UEFI support for ReactOS that can be tracked via this pull request.

    The ReactOS crew shared that with the work-in-progress code one of the developers is able to run ReactOS on the AMD-powered Steam Deck: Behind the scenes, @The_DarkFire__ has been working on bringing UEFI support to #ReactOS!And here’s a surprise by him: With a PR, ReactOS running in Steam Deck!!

    !Work in progress.For more information, see here: https://t.co/woLpr8PY6U pic.twitter.com/1DKQKJUXG2— ReactOS (@reactos) September 13, 2023 While it may not be entirely practical at this stage given the limited device driver and modern game binary compatibility with ReactOS, it’s an interesting milestone nevertheless for this open-source project.

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