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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 SubiculumHammer on Wednesday October 21 2015, @10:55PM

    by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @10:55PM (#252967)

    Sure. But that is a small minority, especially since most of that category (professional software tools belong to Linux powered workstations). I suppose I should include Photoshop though for a MS win.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:27PM (#252982)

    Photoshop works fine on wine for me, it's an older version though. And, I haven't even used it in years because gimp does what I need.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Francis on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:14AM

    by Francis (5544) on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:14AM (#252999)

    I haven't used Photoshop in years, but if you need something that's compatible with Photoshop saves and runs on Linux, you might take a look at http://www.thebloomapp.com/features/ [thebloomapp.com] . It's still in development, but it's already rather impressive.

    But, that being said, professionals that need to interoperate with work by other professionals are pretty much stuck using PS as it's the only way to guarantee complete compatibility.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:33AM (#253076)

      Wow, seriously, they're handing out mod points to retards now, apparently.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:17PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:17PM (#253209)

        Wow, seriously, they're handing out mod points to retards now, apparently.

        You mean, you got mod points?