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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 moondrake on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:55PM

    by moondrake (2658) on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:55PM (#253199)

    This is not true. I regularly use an expensive commercial package for modeling and simulating scientific and engineering problems called COMSOL. Its linux version is not bad, and actually (depends a bit on your setup) more powerful under linux (better memory management and clustering options). My demands for CAD are fairly simple so I just use the limited features in COMSOL one of the free programs. But Siemens NX, VariCAD, and several others all have linux versions.

    Just the fact that your specific CAD software is not available does not mean you can not use linux for serious work. Complain to your vendor, or buy a competing product! (and I say this knowing that your specific workflow may make it impossible to use linux. Its wrong however to think you are the general case).

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