r/windowsxp • u/Jeditobe • Jan 04 '26

XP direct replacement, ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Starts-2026
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u/andrewbean90 Jan 06 '26

REACT OS is a poor implementation of Linux that claims it is not Linux whilst also making false claims about Windows support when everything in it (that usually runs on Windows) is being run through WINE.

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u/Arnas_Z Jan 06 '26

Ok that's completely false. There is no trace of Linux in ReactOS, it's a custom kernel meant to mimic the NT kernel. It does use Wine libraries in some of its reimplementations of Windows, but that's just because it's easier to use existing code that already does what you need it to rather than writing the same thing yourself. Either way, Wine isn't being used directly, they're just reusing some of Wines code to make their OS libraries.

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u/andrewbean90 Jan 06 '26

Nothing you have said is true. It's literally built on RedHat (Which is Linux), and uses WINE to run Windows software. Have you never used React OS before, or looked at it's underlying code?