ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
I&#x27;ve always been strangely fascinated by this project. I don&#x27;t understand it. I appreciate the technical skill involved, and the amount of effort expended. But, I can&#x27;t imagine working on it.<p>From my perspective, Windows is an inferior system to any UNIX-based system on almost every front. It has a very strong application ecosystem, but technically it&#x27;s unpleasant to work on (for me). So, given that, if there&#x27;s something I want an OS to do that Linux can&#x27;t do, I would be motivated to work on making Linux able to do that thing so I could do that thing on an Open Source OS I enjoy using, rather than work on replicating Windows so I could do that thing on an open source OS I don&#x27;t enjoy using.<p>But, it seems there are people who genuinely enjoy Windows more than Linux (or BSD), and are willing to work for <i>17 years</i> in pursuit of being able to run an Open Source Windows version. I admire them for it, but still can&#x27;t understand it.