News Open-Source Windows Project Working to Integrate DirectX Support

[Admin]

The open-source Windows alternative, ReactOS, is working to add support for DirectX and UEFI firmware. This would allow the OS to run on modern hardware, as well as potentially running modern Windows 10 and 11 apps.

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[zipspyder]

ReactOS is a pointless venture that seemed cool 15-20 years ago. That's all I got

 

[jkflipflop98]

Why not just run genuine Windows? It's pretty cheap. Why bother with this "I can't believe it's not Microsoft!" cheap knock-off version full of headaches?

 

[Blastomonas]

Maybe it isnt full of adverts and constantly begging for personal information.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

Why not just run genuine Windows? It's pretty cheap. Why bother with this "I can't believe it's not Microsoft!" cheap knock-off version full of headaches?

Duplicating Windows was a sound idea when the project started in 1996 and Windows 95 was the most advanced version, but Linux, iOS/OSX, Android, BSD, and ChromeOS have come out and offer more utility in a better package. The project is a relic of a bygone era.

 

[slightnitpick]

Why not just run genuine Windows? It's pretty cheap. Why bother with this "I can't believe it's not Microsoft!" cheap knock-off version full of headaches?

For the people who want their OS to stop giving them the "latest and greatest" while removing or hiding functionality they've come to rely on. While still having security updates.

It gets old having to relearn or rehash options on someone else's schedule because your operating system vendor decided that now is a good time to change things that were working for you (this goes for Linux, too, as LTS versions are only supported for a brief period of time).

If you can role your own, it's no problem, but if you can role your own then you should already know that 95% of complaints don't apply to you.

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

Hmm, I thought that it was a dead project. It's nice to see that it's still alive. 👍

 

[dimar]

If this takes off, it would be nice to have some kind of Windows OS that can run on old computers all the way down to the first Pentiums (with SSDs of course) for most basic work, assuming the security is in order. There's going to be a lot of computer trash when Windows 10 support is ended, and this could be some kind of alternative.

 

[dimar]

Hmm, I thought that it was a dead project. It's nice to see that it's still alive. 👍

You can always check Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS

 

[snemarch]

Why not just run genuine Windows? It's pretty cheap. Why bother with this "I can't believe it's not Microsoft!" cheap knock-off version full of headaches?

The point isn't "free" as in the monetary cost, but as in "open".

Also, aren't there interactions between the ReactOS, WINE and Proton projects?

 

[zipspyder]

All the people supporting this with "reasons" fail to comprehend we are going to be old and gone before ReactOS will be viable for any useful purpose.

 

[HaninTH]

All the people supporting this with "reasons" fail to comprehend we are going to be old and gone before ReactOS will be viable for any useful purpose.

This. While it would have been nice to have an open source variant of Windows, the pace of development of this project will have a beta version ready by Windows 50, and by then, they'll be behind whatever new mechanism Microsoft has conceived to continue to bring in revenue.

 

[rambo919]

There are use cases for this, primarily people that don't want to use either Linux or a new version of Windows.

Future history could go either way really.