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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: 1) by Bodger on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:52PM

    by Bodger (5390) on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:52PM (#253198)

    I tried running wine a few years back but most of the newer Windows apps are .Net and I did not have much luck in running them.

    Has that improved?

    Thanx

    Bodger

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @02:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @02:11PM (#253228)

    It isnt that the windows applications are now .NET, they have been for a while. They are just a newer version of .NET.

    Wine works well with older programs, think two years. New stuff makes calls on dlls that haven't been made to work with wine yet. NO matter what you will never have all of the new applications work well in Wine. It will always take a while for it to catch up.

    TLDR: Wine works better with applications that have been out for a while.