What are /r/reactos' favorite Products & Services?

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Update: Sadly regular Git doesn't work. You can track the issue here if you want: https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-13898 About PowerShell: You could ask the devs on IRC at https://www.reactos.org/irc

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You can probably find much more information in the bug tracker example of one of the projects.

It will probably run it, but I don't think ReactOS is really viable for everyday use yet. You really should look into some form of Linux instead; many distros run great on old hardware while still providing a more modern experience, such as Puppy Linux.

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> and maybe games.

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ROS has way less support for Windows Games than plain old Linux + WINE. See also Proton, which now supports several thousands of Windows games out of the box.

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> test viruses

Ironically, viruses are probably way less portable than games. (i.e. many will try to use Windows-specific bugs to get privilege escalation, so they may not work on ROS.)

First, ReactOS isn't linux. It also isn't Windows. It's ReactOS.

Now that that is out of the way, it does have a graphics stack, and it should operate the same as windows xp does. You can either use DirectX or OpenGL.

> The DIB Engine (in the graphics subsystem), along with your video card's driver, provide rendering primitives, such as rectangles, lines and BitBlit operations.

https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_Explorer

So in the end, if you have the right drivers, software installed, and no other bugs or issues. You can get anything to run under it.

Cross-post from here.

There's also a news post that doesn't shed any more light on this.