The point of ReactOS is not really to run legacy apps - Wine on Linux is enough for that. It's to run legacy proprietary drivers, for hardware that will never be properly supported on Linux absent a tedious reverse-engineering effort. (Similar to running LineageOS on a phone instead of a far more compelling PostmarketOS.)

From the What is ReactOS page:

> ReactOS is an operating system.

> Our own main features are:

> ReactOS is able to run Windows software

> ReactOS is able to run Windows drivers

> ReactOS looks-like Windows

> ReactOS is free and open source

https://reactos.org/what-is-reactos/

Well it's not really meant to be used. It's nowhere near ready for everyday use.

The current release hasn’t BSOD’d on me yet, so they’re at least headed in the right direction. I’m still a bit mystified how they still have the same graphical glitches the ancient version of Firefox they support.

It would also be nice if they had VMware drivers out of the box, but given how quickly the project progresses I may be asking for too much in that regard.

Maybe it never meant to be used? Its development started soon after Windows 95 release, as we all see in 20+ years of progress not even close to beta

It's logical, Microsoft has more ressources and runs faster than them to deliver because they have more people and money.

You cannot catch a flying jet with a single engine plane but I admire the effort, it's well done.

It can work relatively well under VirtualBox.

And it does in my Dell Optiplex 3010 (without BSOD). Maybe in the near future the motherboard, multiprocessor, batteries and Audio drivers, the different .dll modules that should be working, will work. Maybe.

Sadly it panics under Bochs, but maybe I have to use another CPU definition. Testing VooDoo support would be great.