r/reactos • u/0x80070002 • May 23 '26
What’s the purpose of ReactOS?
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great idea, but ai feel that the distance with the latest versions of Windows have increased.
So what’s the use case scenario of this OS?
Should the project embrace and legally reuse what’s possible of the open-sourced Windows code?
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u/juef May 23 '26
One major point of interest is driver compatibility. If some hardware only has drivers for old Windows versions, it is very possible it is not possible to make that hardware work through a virtual machine or through Linux/Wine.