Re:ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 softw...
by arghwhat on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:37PM
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> It's a fringe OS that requires technical expertise to install.
That's fixable (and not different from Windows).
> Not only that but it looks like "old Windows"
That is by far the easiest fix of all. People just care more about making things work right now.
Plus, a lot of people actually preferred the older style.
> Not only that but it'll have bugs
Welcome to software. Windows is also full of bugs.
> You'll see tiny pockets of people using it but as Microsoft gets closer and closer to simply having a free OS it doesn't seem likely anyone would ever use this OS for anything beyond "hey, that's cool!".
I think it might end up being quite big quite soon: There's a bunch of proprietary software out there that is old, and not Windows 10 compatible.
Things like car diagnostics software. If ReactOS gives them a way to get things working without Win10, I'm sure they'd eat it right up.
ReactOS just isn't ready for that yet. It's still major version 0.
That's fixable (and not different from Windows).
> Not only that but it looks like "old Windows"
That is by far the easiest fix of all. People just care more about making things work right now.
Plus, a lot of people actually preferred the older style.
> Not only that but it'll have bugs
Welcome to software. Windows is also full of bugs.
> You'll see tiny pockets of people using it but as Microsoft gets closer and closer to simply having a free OS it doesn't seem likely anyone would ever use this OS for anything beyond "hey, that's cool!".
I think it might end up being quite big quite soon: There's a bunch of proprietary software out there that is old, and not Windows 10 compatible.
Things like car diagnostics software. If ReactOS gives them a way to get things working without Win10, I'm sure they'd eat it right up.
ReactOS just isn't ready for that yet. It's still major version 0.