ReactOS

Reader supplied reviews for ReactOS Average rating 5.9 from 13 review(s) What are your thoughts on ReactOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 0.4.140.3.17 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 0.4.14 Rating: 10 Date: 2022-06-19 Votes: 3 An interesting non-Linux distro. This is an open source implementation of Windows that I wish would get more help and funding to keep it much more up to date and competitive to Windows. I have used it to try it out and I’m impressed. There are things lacking here and there because as I say with funding and it needs more people contributing bug fixes and helping the developers get further along. That’s what any open-source operating system needs. I can only think of the word admirable is what the developers here are doing. I really hope this project keeps going, I’d love to have an open-source and compatible implementation of Windows for everyday use, we’d not have to deal with Microsoft’s bs, user-unfriendliness and spyware. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 0.4.14 Rating: 1 Date: 2022-05-23 Votes: 3 Don't waste your time! While the concept is cool, it is just for fun. Functionality is near zero. I can't think of any reason anyone would use this at all! Pros: looks like WindowsNT, shell functions much like WindowsNT. Cons: It is not WindowsNT nor is it good for anything these days. No one runs Windows Server2003 today unless it's on some obscure server running some really, really old legacy software like say maybe a HID door access control program. I tried to load several old WindowsNT based programs I had laying around and none of them really worked as they should and either crashed or refused to run at all. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 0.4.14 Rating: 6 Date: 2022-03-08 Votes: 9 I tested ReactOS 64-bit in a virtual machine and it wouldn't boot after the first stage of installation. It was intended to be compatible with Windows Server 2003, but now most software is no longer supported it, so it is almost impossible to replace Windows. The development of ReactOS is really slow, and it's not nearly as complete as Haiku OS. which at least has full 64-bit and UEFI boot support, Haiku OS development has accelerated significantly in the past two years. I think the main reason is that Windows is very complex. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 13 reader reviews of ReactOS...