ReactOS

“Within a week, I would have an Open Source windows that did everything I personally needed it to do.”

“With the way Asahi Linux, WINE and ReactOS operate - no AI, reverse-engineering has to be very carefully documented - it is much, much less likely someone can complain about violating laws and licenses.”

“I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.”

“One of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver”

“Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues”

“Getting a Haiku release and a ReactOS release in such a short window is such a treat.”

“I love this Win9x like interface aesthetica for being dense in font size/information”

“This, ReactOS, and TempleOS have been my answer to the question of: "what should I install if I'm looking for something interesting?"”

“FreeBSD, OpenBSD, heck even ReactOS are all things you can use and make better instead”

“it is impressive that is starting to have less and less problems than few years ago”

“there isn't a real benefit to developers developing for ReactOS as a proxy for developing for Windows”

“If ReactOS had worked this well 20 years ago, I would probably have used it (I did try it a couple of times).”

“there's never been enough interest in ReactOS to get it to the point where it's stable”

“It's far easier to port ReactOS than Windows to ARM and other new CPU ISAs.”

“last time I tried, I could not connect to the internet, and that was a breaking point for me”

“You can run proprietary drivers with ReactOS since it replicates the driver layer too.”

“It would be great if we could combine ReactOS with Good old Games to build a retro Windows games distribution.”

“for a hobby OS, keeping hardware and software accessible after the rest of the world broke access, it still works”

“ReactOS was not created only to run half-life. It's just one of their many impressive achievements.”

“they reimplemented directx without vulkan, that's indeed in a league of their own”

“Although not viable for daily driving yet, still fun to play around with in a VM”

“they celebrated their 30th anniversary recently which is pretty impressive”

“ReactOS has made significant progress in supporting proprietary graphics drivers”

“ReactOS has delt itself a massive blow by hiding so much of their progress.”

“in some ways it's closer than it feels to being acceptable as a daily driver, in others it's quite far away”

“Still not nearly stable enough to be used as a daily driver, but it's been getting a lot better lately.”

“They've already made a lot of progress with almost no resources as is.”

“the hard part is the compatibility (that is given by many still missing parts) and stability (the still defective parts)”

“I bet we'll see people switching to ReactOS when it will get just stable enough”

“solves for a very small set of practical use cases which are not covered by real Windows, or Linux+WINE”

“Development on the project has never been fast but somewhere around 2018 it dropped even more”

“the effort is huge, and would need to be sufficient for wide desktop installs”

“I would like to see ReactOS succeed for various reasons, mainly philosophical.”

“if it can run windows exes out of the box, whilst not phoning home to microsoft, it becomes an attractive proposition”

“best viewed as an enthusiast research / challenge project with no practical use”

“ReactOS has been very slow to develop, and probably missed the point where it could make an impact.”

“if there was a purpose for it besides having an "is able to" replica, it would attract more people.”

“It ensures WinNT survives as a platform even if Microsoft abandons it”

“Be great to get this to build on ReactOS as just a hobby or side effort”

“it reimplements not only win32 API/ABI, but also the NT kernel with its stable API/ABI”