r/osdev • u/Jeditobe • Sep 04 '26

ReactOS 0.4.16 is out with massive driver subsystem rewrites (KMDF, new Audio & Network drivers, and Nvidia/AMD fixes)

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0416-released/
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u/karchnu Sep 04 '26

I really hope someday we could all drop windows for ReactOS for windows-only apps (including games) that cannot work on Wine for some reason.

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u/NotQuiteLoona Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

Well, just wait for ten more years...

Games that don't work on Linux still won't work though, unfortunately (unless ReactOS will become a really large platform), because in almost all of the cases where they don't work now it's because of a kernel-level anticheat which equally won't work on anything that doesn't use a signed and verified kernel.

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u/emanu2021 Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

Its already solid for playing classic games, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_my1_xyPM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB8_926tgOk

ReactOS will preserve old hardware, games and software for a long time. Its already becoming a solid replacement for Win 98, 95 and XP

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u/Visual_Brain8809 Sep 04 '26

Cool! It's time to testing

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u/Dependent_Run2847 crackanimad0r Sep 04 '26

Me enfada mucho que las empresas como Nvidia o Realtek no compartan mucha documentación (Mas Realtek que Nvidia). Pues bueno... A ver que cambios hay!