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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by eloisant on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:37AM (#10750274)
If you want to run Windows applications on an Open Source OS, the Wine approach is much more realistic. It's also nicer because for everything that Linux can already do, you don't have to mimic Windows.

Anyway, desktop applications are not that relevant today, and most of those that are (like web browsers, developer tools) are cross-platform anyway.

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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by snvzz on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:46AM (#10750680)
ReactOS shares a lot of code with Wine. Mostly DLLs. Code flows both ways.

Even if you're never going to use ReactOS, it still helps make wine better.

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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by Nullabillity on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:26AM (#10750596)
IIRC, ReactOS is based on Wine anyway.
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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by redblacktree on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:26PM (#10753272)
> Anyway, desktop applications are not that relevant today, and most of those that are (like web browsers, developer tools) are cross-platform anyway.

Yes, but PC games are very relevant. They are the entire reason I have a Windows machine at all.

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