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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: 3, Informative) by ilPapa on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:37AM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:37AM (#253012) Journal

    It's not an alternative to Windows 10 until ReactOS can run Fallout 4.

    Instead, ReactOS looks like something that was running on the computers in Fallout 3.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:51PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:51PM (#253269) Journal

    ReactOS is Alpha quality software. They are doing their best, but I would agree with your first statement. They have a long, long way to go. Though, seriously, "the computers" in Fallout 3 were all text based. FreeDOS is a much better comparison.

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    • (Score: 1) by Francis on Friday October 23 2015, @12:21AM

      by Francis (5544) on Friday October 23 2015, @12:21AM (#253455)

      I hadn't thought about it, but it's kind of funny how the computers in FO3 and FO:NV are mostly what computers were like when the original Wasteland was released. Even though the game itself is based on technology that was well ahead of where computers were in the '80s or even now. They've got resilient robots wandering the desert, but they're still running something that looks like Apple DOS or DOS.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday October 23 2015, @04:54PM

        by Freeman (732) on Friday October 23 2015, @04:54PM (#253647) Journal

        In their defense, the majority of FO3 and FO:NV interactions with computers were for "hacking" purposes. It also provided for an easy and convenient way to add extra bits of story / plot.

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