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Ask Soylent: Can We Turn ReactOS into a Viable Alternative to Windows 10?

posted by n1 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.

Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?

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  • (Score: 2) by NoMaster on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:34PM

    by NoMaster (3543) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:34PM (#252984)

    Or, put more simply: No.

    None of the existing emulators or software (e.g WINE) manage to be completely compatible with even Win16 apps, let alone Win32 or Win64. And any attempts to do so will inevitably come a poor second to Windows, if only because they will always be playing catch-up.

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