Comments on: ReactOS Alternative to Windows – Review, and Installation

By: joe blow

joe blow — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:04:54 +0000

In reply to Johannes.

It should never touch the partition table silently.

Of course, it should! That’s being a good little Windows clone — that’s *exactly* what Windows did at one point when it silently trashed any OS/2 installation on a disk when you installed it!

So if this is true, it’s a clone rather than a compatible :)

By: Nia

Nia — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:34:16 +0000

I downloaded it on a couple of laptops.

If you don’t have supported hardware, sometimes it still works but gets that annoying pop-up stuck there permanently.

Asking you and asking you for drivers you will never attain. Why!? Oh why!?

….but other than that I love React OS, both spiritually and as a matter of trying to revive long-dead laptops without compromising their Windows compatibility.

One of them can’t connect to the internet though, so I’m wondering about solutions there, to get apps (there’s always solutions) so that’s where I’m at.

I love this OS and everything that it stands for. I hope it takes over the world one day and merges with human consciousness

By: NSA Watchlist Bait

NSA Watchlist Bait — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:51:55 +0000

ReactOS has been developing fast lately. It is so awesome to think that we’ll pretty soon get a fully capable alternative to winXP and win7

By: R.H. Hartman

R.H. Hartman — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:55:20 +0000

No system requirements to be found anywhere.

Gave it a quick try in KVM under RHEL 8. Blue screens on the display driver even though the boot-graphic displays OK.

Next!

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:31:48 +0000

ReactOS has been in a perpetual state of development since 1998. They still have not released even an RC version, let alone a production version. Maybe by the end of this century, they will finally release Version 1.0.

All software is constantly under development but every so often, the development is frozen and the software is released into the wild.