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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @10:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @10:28PM (#253423)

    I guess all us professional physicists and astronomers don't do real work. When you write your own code, doing anything on Windows is a major PITA. Even the tools of our trade, Matlab, IDL/ENVI, Mathematica, work much smoother outside of Windows. Where I sit, all the people doing "real work" are doing it on Macs or Linux boxes. We then have to stuff our results into PPT docs because the PHB's gotta have their slide packages.