Really? I've been able to do this for pretty much every version I've ever downloaded, at least in a VM but also on my old K7. It's unstable but not that unstable.

He beats me, but only every other day...

I have no idea what this means in context.

"it's unstable, but not that unstable"

And that has something to do with justifying domestic abuse?

I'm not saying that instability or domestic abuse is okay.

+1. I couldn't manage to make it boot on vmware for the life of me the last time I tried a few months ago.

I think that is terrible. Many people would try it on virtual machines and see what happens, and those people could be potential developers in the future. But the way it's now...

please read the manual first (before you try)

https://reactos.org/wiki/VMware

https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_ReactOS

I'm wondering what the community could do to make this less hands on and more out of the box friendly. I can install usually any Linux Distro without having to fuzz about too much with the settings, except with VirtualBox if I really want the extras installed, but it's still usually usable.