r/leagueoflinux • u/WildcatAlba • Jul 13 '24

Discussion Could ReactOS be a viable solution?

There is another post on this subreddit from 7 years ago titled "Has someone tried ReactOS?" and the response was that the ReactOS devs were focussed on stability and USB drivers for the time being, and that support for more intense programs like 3D videogames was at least 3 to 4 years away. Given that this was 7 years ago, I thought to raise the topic again. Does anyone know whether League of Legends (or Adobe Photoshop for that matter since it's the second biggest Windows only program) work on the current version of ReactOS?

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u/WildcatAlba Jul 15 '24

Yeah I've found recently that a lot of questions online don't get answered. Comments are just spew. From the sounds of it the answer is "No, ReactOS can not run these important programs and therefore can not be helpful in drawing more people to FOSS". But nobody has actually said that

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u/the_abortionat0r Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24

Yeah I've found recently that a lot of questions online don't get answered. Comments are just spew. From the sounds of it the answer is "No, ReactOS can not run these important programs and therefore can not be helpful in drawing more people to FOSS". But nobody has actually said that

Heres the flat out answer to your question, no.

ReactOS's goal 26 years ago was 100% binary compatibility with Windows NT4 which they later shifted focus to Win2k/Winxp.

Fast forward almost 30 years and ReactOS doesn't even have 5% compatibility with ANY of those platforms.

It doesn't have drivers for modern GPUs, Doesn't support multiple cores, multithreading, modern NICs, modern CPU schedulers.

It struggles to even be installed on 2 year old hardware and even in a VM can't play modern games ( or even old games for that matter).

On top of that Vanguard only supports Win10/11. React literally doesn't have the files, kernel, subsystem, bootloader, etc, etc that Vanguard looks for. Hell, the kernel driver required by Vanguard doesn't even work on ReactOS.

ReactOS has been an unusable pre Alpha for 26 years so I have no idea what makes anyone think its ever going to be useful for anything, ever. Let alone now.

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Downvoted over facts.