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Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

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Post by forinti » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 9:48 AM UTC

Windows is going downhill so fast, I fear ReactOS won't be relevant before Windows becomes irrelevant.

Maybe ReactOS will live after Windows as an option for people with critical applications that for some reason won't run on Linux.

If ReactOS had worked this well 20 years ago, I would probably have used it (I did try it a couple of times). Today I just don't need it.

Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

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Post by Jigsy » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

I find ReactOS interesting, but I could never get anything to work the last time I tried it - which was a few months ago.

I also have a feeling that I'll be dead for centuries long before it ever becomes a viable replacement.

On the plus side, at least it'll be finished quicker than GNU Hurd will be...

Re: ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

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Post by micromacrofoot » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

goodcanadian wrote: post #54

micromacrofoot wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is the year of the linux desktop

I have been exclusively running linux on my desktop for 25 years, so from my point of view, this "joke" is a quarter century out of date

that's the joke