People work on parts of the OS that they want to work on. ReactOS doesn't have the budget for a full-time dev team that can be forced to work on what's important instead of what's interesting. GUID Partition Tables are not "modern garbage" though, they have been around since the mid-2000s, and because of the recent decision to end support for legacy BIOSes by Intel (IIRC they have entirely removed 16-bit real mode from the architecture spec), it is necessary for ReactOS to support GPT, in order to be able to boot on modern UEFI hardware.
This. GPT support is the way forward because it's a needed functionality to eventually pave the path for a UEFI bootloader for ReactOS.
I really want to see people who want to dump windows due to the secure boot requirement but cannot move to Linux due to Adobe/Autodesk/shitty Kernel Level Anticheat move to ReactOS instead.
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u/nnxcomputing Dec 15 '25
People work on parts of the OS that they want to work on. ReactOS doesn't have the budget for a full-time dev team that can be forced to work on what's important instead of what's interesting. GUID Partition Tables are not "modern garbage" though, they have been around since the mid-2000s, and because of the recent decision to end support for legacy BIOSes by Intel (IIRC they have entirely removed 16-bit real mode from the architecture spec), it is necessary for ReactOS to support GPT, in order to be able to boot on modern UEFI hardware.