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Re:ReactOS 0.4.13 by zozbot234 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:33AM (#22841127)
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.)
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Re:ReactOS 0.4.13 by bestnameever on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:50AM (#22841168)
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/

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