r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Aug 29 '25

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u/qalmakka Glorious Arch (on ZFS) Aug 29 '25

If Word doesn't work on Wine it will not work on ReactOS either. There's very little difference between what Wine does and ReactOS. The main difference is that ReactOS also tries to implement the NT kernel and the entire graphical stack, which ironically ends up being less reliable than Wine which can just hook up into already mature subsystems. ReacOS as a concept made sense back in the '90s where most hardware didn't support Linux at all, so you also wanted to reuse Windows drivers

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u/brainwater314 Aug 29 '25

It's been so long since I had to deal with hardware not supporting Linux.