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.
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.
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!
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
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