It's pretty interesting but the last time I tried it, like 1 year ago, was not very usable. I recall seing some games running pretty well.

Being able to run Windows programs is nice and should be easier than setup Wine,even in the future with some DRM stuff.

Of course, we all know Microsoft wont allow for a good alternative like this.

And don't forget, your support is needed on a small project like this...

The Wine and ReactOS projects share a lot of code with each other. It's a mutually beneficial relationship that improves both projects. It's not some random "bloatware" the devs added in because they had nothing better to do. It's what actually makes DirectX work in ReactOS.

https://reactos.org/wiki/Games_ROS_Testing

Some good stuff in the list, including Wesnoth, Banished, homm3 and far cry. I guess a new test of React Os is needed :D

Soon ™

Very nice, and it's about time that MS was put in it's place although it still looks a long way off from being usable as a main OS.

6 years? Try 24.

Quote Wikipedia:

I wonder what is the benefit of this os. Who is their target audience. There's not much you can gain with providing alternative for obsolete windows imo

IMO the biggest problem with ReactOS is finding hardware that's old enough to still have drivers that work with ReactOS. If they supported the more modern kernel stuff and drivers (such as WDDM for display drivers) then maybe it would be good. But since they don't, the best option if you actually want to run Windows apps and dont want Windows would be a Linux setup with WINE.

Ooops! Only checked the versions history on their FAQ, there my bad as it went back to 2012 so that's 8 not 6 -I'll claim a typo here :-D but did not check the actual development history which indeed would go back quite a way.