I have the feeling that this OS might become to Windows what Linux became to Unix.
Well, I think we need that considering the directions MS wants to go in. Windows isn't even usable for the people who don't hate it anymore.
ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
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Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#12Driver support seems to me like it could be an advantage over Linux.
Does anyone here know the current state of installing a browser on ReactOS?
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#13Driver support seems to me like it could be an advantage over Linux. Does anyone here know the current state of installing a browser on ReactOS?
I think it has WINEs browser which is webkit based
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#14I have the feeling that this OS might become to Windows what Linux became to Unix.
People have hoped that for a long while but sadly I don't ever see that happening
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#15> Of course it BSODed a few times, but a simple reboot later I was able to continue.
Not sure what concerns me more, the "BSOD" or "Of course".
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#16On a side note, _in the context of workstations_, I wonder if a hypothetical OS that reimplements the Windows APIs (like ReactOS, but with perfect modern hardware support) would be better for end users than a Linux distro with a modern DE. In the past, this hypothetical OS would be a revolution. But I feel that, in recent years, this gap is not as big anymore and Linux supports way more apps than in the past. Such an…
> Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026 _for workstations_? The ideas behind the NT kernels are much deeper than what many Linux fans think of it. Just to give some examples: - the NT kernel is build around supporting multiple subsystems, even though currently only "1.5" are in active use: the Windows subsystem and WSL1 (the latter has for many purposes been replaced by WSL2) - the NT kernel is not…
For a better implementation of everything being a file, Plan 9 and inferno come pretty close to literally everything being a file.
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#17> Of course it BSODed a few times, but a simple reboot later I was able to continue. Not sure what concerns me more, the "BSOD" or "Of course".
its goal is to be a fully compatible version of NT5 no?
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#18On a side note, _in the context of workstations_, I wonder if a hypothetical OS that reimplements the Windows APIs (like ReactOS, but with perfect modern hardware support) would be better for end users than a Linux distro with a modern DE. In the past, this hypothetical OS would be a revolution. But I feel that, in recent years, this gap is not as big anymore and Linux supports way more apps than in the past. Such an…
> Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026 _for workstations_? The ideas behind the NT kernels are much deeper than what many Linux fans think of it. Just to give some examples: - the NT kernel is build around supporting multiple subsystems, even though currently only "1.5" are in active use: the Windows subsystem and WSL1 (the latter has for many purposes been replaced by WSL2) - the NT kernel is not…
- the NT kernel is not built around "everything is a file" ... instead the central concept is the handle
File descriptor, handle. Potayto, potahto.
Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#19On a side note, _in the context of workstations_, I wonder if a hypothetical OS that reimplements the Windows APIs (like ReactOS, but with perfect modern hardware support) would be better for end users than a Linux distro with a modern DE. In the past, this hypothetical OS would be a revolution. But I feel that, in recent years, this gap is not as big anymore and Linux supports way more apps than in the past. Such an…
Wouldn't that just be Linux with Wine? It would be less effort to implement further APIs/fix incompatibilities on Wine rather than reimplement a new OS from scratch.
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Re: ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026 _for workstations_? The ideas behind the NT kernels are much deeper than what many Linux fans think of it. Just to give some examples: - the NT kernel is build around supporting multiple subsystems, even though currently only "1.5" are in active use: the Windows subsystem and WSL1 (the latter has for many purposes been replaced by WSL2) - the NT kernel is not…
- the NT kernel is not built around "everything is a file" ... instead the central concept is the handle File descriptor, handle. Potayto, potahto.
> File descriptor, handle. Potayto, potahto.
Under Windows, a lot more concepts are handles than just files, directories, symbolic links, pipes, mail slots, ..., e.g.
- processes, threads
- synchronization objects (mutex, semaphore)
- events (CreateEventEx)
- I/O Completion Ports
- Sections (ZwCreateSection) and Partitions (https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/ntoskrnl/ap... ) for memory
- waitable timers
- GUI components (HWND)