What's the general consensus on ReactOS? Kind of seems like a "worst of both worlds" thing to me (having done little research).
ReactOS
John Cruz
Jose Thompson
Interesting project, but sadly hopeless. The development is way too slow and Microshaft will probably shut them down if they get anywhere.
Blake Campbell
Impossible to shut them down legally, they did nothing illegal.
Kevin Gonzalez
nobody said legally
Kayden Cox
it's like gnu but instead of ripping off unix it is ripping off windows.
Adrian Gutierrez
I have some hope for it. I don't think it'll ever go mainstream for consumers, but if it gets good enough and stable enough, I could see it being attractive to the corporate world to replace some Windows workstations or servers since it's free.
Jacob Cook
How would you do that for a russia funded OS
what both worlds?
It's just windows built from scratch using wine.(which btw helps the wine project)
Xavier Thomas
Big companies can afford to constantly keep suing smaller companies, even if it's something they know the big company can't win. The idea is that the larger company knows the constant lawsuits will drive the smaller one's resources down, probably to the point where it massively affects how the smaller company works. We saw something very similar when Intel helped kill of Cyrix with a ton of frivolous lawsuits Intel knew it couldn't win. But it drained Cyrix of resources to the point Cyrix could no longer make a competitive product.
Angel Kelly
when the bigger company loses a case, they should have to pay the defendants legal fees
Isaiah Campbell
It's great, but sadly the development is too slow. There aren't that many devs, testers or donations. They moved to GitHub recently so it might become more popular among the devs. Hopefully they'll provide a viable OS by the end of 2021. It already has some good features, but needs to become more stable. It will never be a 1:1 Windows alternative since some proprietary parts will be illegal to even replicate, or impossible to replicate so any software relying too heavily on the Windows wall garden will be unstable or absent from ReactOS