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ReactOS 0.3.15 Released
Beardydog writes "From the ReactOS.org bulletin, 'The ReactOS project is proud to announce the release of version 0.3.15. A culmination of over a year of development, 0.3.15 incorporates several architectural enhancements to create a more compatible and conformant implementation of the NT architecture. Perhaps the most user visible enhancement is initial support for USB devices, both storage and input.'"
Please tell me you are trolling.
Windows is broken by design, I have no desire to run it.
Well, I would consider the fact that it needs rebooted every time you fart to be broken by design. And its entire life, started as a single-user system, means the whole damn thing is broken as far as multi-user goes. Sure, that's been shoehorned onto Windows, but at its core Windows was designed for one, all-powerful user on a single, non-network-connected computer. And this shows in its endless list of critical security bugs dumb design decisions.
It has no chance of dethroning Windows. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Look, no one will ever be as good at being Microsoft as Microsoft is. ReactOS may be eventually be 99 44/100 % Windows compatible. It may look like Windows, feel like Windows, and act like Windows almost all the time--but it won't be Windows. And sooner or later, anyone running it will run into some instance where Windows does this but ReactOS does that. Now, when this happens (when, not if) developers will say, "That's interesting, we should fix that." But regular users will think, "Serves me right for trying to use this cheap knockoff. Guess I'll just get the real thing." And if anyone asks them about their experience with ReactOS, that's pretty what they'll say.
That's exactly why Linux failed to replace UNIX. A knockoff can never succeed.