Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's the mission of ReactOS! 📦

19    26 Oct 2020 16:55 by u/Arador

11 comments

8 u/TheEpicRock 26 Oct 2020 17:23
Yeah... but it does not work very well.
2 u/1ethanhansen 26 Oct 2020 20:22
Have you used it before? What doesn't work super well?
2 u/TheEpicRock 27 Oct 2020 18:31
i have heard it Blue screens a lot.
3 u/1ethanhansen 27 Oct 2020 18:54
Sounds like a good windows emulator lol
3 u/EqualityNotEquity 26 Oct 2020 17:08
Has anyone used it? What drawbacks should one be aware of? If I wanted to migrate out of windows finally, would a reactos partition let me handle what windows things I can't do in linux (mostly game related stuff)?
4 u/encyclopediagalactica 26 Oct 2020 18:40
Why not spin up a live cd and give it a go? Last I checked it wasn't really suitable for much. Not stable.
-1 u/ArcturianDeathMachine 26 Oct 2020 21:18
Uses computers for vidya gaems: life goalz achieved!
1 u/EqualityNotEquity 26 Oct 2020 21:27
No, that's the aspect of my computing that still keeps me in windows. Jesus you sound like a fun person.
-1 u/ArcturianDeathMachine 01 Nov 2020 01:09
So theres no fun without playing video games with me? Jeez, you sound like a neurotypical
4 u/Arador [OP] 27 Oct 2020 15:55
My honest opinion is that ReactOS has about zero chance of keeping up with the changes it would have to keep up with in order to be actually useful for gaming. It's just not going to happen as far as gaming goes.
2 u/EqualityNotEquity 27 Oct 2020 16:03
Thanks, that was what I was afraid of. Guess the windows partition shall remain for now.