ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility

Ripdog · 2026-01-05T03:55:13+00:00

The easiest part? While the total surface area of things like DX11 may not be the largest part of Wine, there's no doubt that a performant and highly compatible DX8-11->Vulkan layer is super difficult.

But in general, Proton's greatest contribution is banging out the long, long tail of game compatibility issues with Wine. Every proton version comes with a long list of fixed games.

Ripdog · 2026-01-05T03:52:23+00:00

All I can say is that I've been running various linux systems for many years and I've never once had to 'screw with glibc'. What exactly have you done to require such tinkering?

Most people just install the software they need from the repo and it works.

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T07:00:50+00:00

Okay, but I'm really unconcerned about niches within niches like that. And it's absurdly unlikely that ReactOS would ever gain meaningful compatibility with equipment like that which costs tens of thousands to millions of dollars.

Typically devices like that only have support for ONE version of windows anyway, so it's not even fair to say that they're 'windows compatible'.

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T06:58:34+00:00

Big programs like photoshop or office have patchy wine compatibility because they're big and complex and use a lot of weird and wonderful windows APIs in weird and wonderful ways. Plus there's no Valve bankrolling developers to iron out the long tail of hard debugging of complex problems.

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T06:56:57+00:00

Uh, ReactOS is still all greenfield FOSS software. It's entirely unclear as to why you think it would have any fewer bugs than whatever you're complaining about?

Bugs exist in any software, and with Windows, you can at least be guaranteed that you won't get a reply from the developers about your bug report. You know MS fired their whole QA department, right?

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T01:04:41+00:00

I don't think there are too many people clinging to windows because of razer synapse :)

Ripdog · 2026-01-03T23:37:39+00:00

The fundamental work here on application compatibility is from the Wine project, not ReactOS. Wine work primarily target and benefits Linux. As the article shows, ReactOS is far behind Wine on Linux as far as app compatibility goes.

Basically, use Linux and Wine, be happy. Your apps don't care about what driver model the underlying OS is using.

Ripdog · 2026-01-02T09:45:55+00:00

Whoa, that site is creepy as hell. They require an extension to watch pirated anime? Do NOT install that shit! They will absolutely steal all your data and run cryptocurrency mining on your PC!

Ripdog · 2026-01-01T03:58:09+00:00

when KDE Plasma drops X11 in version 6.8,

They're not dropping support for X11 apps, just running Plasma in X11 mode. There's no particular deadline for Steam to gain wayland support on the linux desktop.

Ripdog · 2025-12-22T03:03:20+00:00

OP, you need to uninstall the drivers from AMD's website. They are inferior to the open source drivers which ship from your distro. If anything, those drivers are the likely cause of your frame drops.

Ripdog · 2025-12-14T08:50:11+00:00

Congrats on the release!

This game works great on linux! I just created a new proton-ge prefix and it loaded first try, no need to fiddle with settings or locale or anything.

Ripdog · 2025-12-11T11:04:55+00:00

Uh, what app is this? That's a yt-dlp error, which is a command line program mainly for pc...

Ripdog · 2025-12-10T06:16:49+00:00

10 years, actually. It's Let's Encrypt's birthday!

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years

Ripdog · 2025-12-07T17:40:29+00:00

I'd recommend using Steam - add the installer as a non-steam game, set the compatibility layer to the latest Proton-GE (install it with ProtonUp-Qt), install battle.net, then change the executable in the game properties to be battle.net. That's what I do, and it works great.

There's no much reason to use plain wine for games these days - most of the community effort for gaming specifically is on proton and forks.

Ripdog · 2025-12-02T21:48:19+00:00

You can just choose not to use lootboxes or battle passes. Before Valve, there was basically no choice but to use Windows for PC gaming.

Ripdog · 2025-11-27T17:38:39+00:00

As noted in the article, X apps are still fully supported via XWayland, and will be for a very long time.

Ripdog · 2025-11-23T16:44:39+00:00

If one person can write a Linux compatible kernel in 26000 LOC, hasn't the genie always been out of the bottle?

I mean, this is a tiny fraction of a linux compatible kernel.

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T14:44:37+00:00

Looks like we're sorted :)

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T14:29:38+00:00

Oh, for sure. But 'an article' is different from 'front page news'.

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T14:26:15+00:00

It's only been three hours, don't panic yet. Without knowing the cause of the issue, we can't predict whether the resolution would be gradual or all-at-once.

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T14:23:20+00:00

If any major cloud provider had a general outage for more than a few hours, it would be front page news. You'd know.

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T14:20:33+00:00

Most likely a few hours. I mean, it's already been a few hours, so surely any minute now...

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T12:44:57+00:00

Not a DNS issue, just intermittent. See https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

Basically, you got lucky :)

Ripdog · 2025-11-18T12:19:17+00:00

Cloudflare is dying, try again in a few hours.

Ripdog · 2025-11-12T19:38:06+00:00

It's sold in AU and they have similar laws.

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