My future goal of using ReactOS
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 8:00 am
So I think I will finally share my future goal of transferring to a ReactOS system. I decided I will go a head and use ReactOS in my next hardware upgrade, which will be sometime in 2020 or 2021. To help accomplish this, I have pledged $50 usd per month (or 43 euro) to ReactOS (I may increase this to 75 usd or 65 euro per month).
Now I know what you may be thinking already: Well what if ReactOS is still in alpha and not stable at that time?
Well yes that is very possible that will still be the case, even in 2020/2021, however, I really don't need much more in order to use ReactOS. There are only 3 things I am hoping for that ReactOS will have by then: 1. A proper filesystem (with someone working on Winbtrfs booting this year, I feel like this will in time), 2. 64-bit support (there is already a AMD64 PR on GitHub, so I have a feeling this will be ready by 2020/2021), 3. A built in updater (this is not really a priority, though, as I do not mind manually updating, but this would make life much easier). These are really the only thing I have been waiting for ReactOS to have, other wise I probably would have switched already. Of course, I will still have another drive with Windows on, but this will be more of a backup drive, if anything.
Would love to hear from other people if anyone else has any similar goals?
Now I know what you may be thinking already: Well what if ReactOS is still in alpha and not stable at that time?
Well yes that is very possible that will still be the case, even in 2020/2021, however, I really don't need much more in order to use ReactOS. There are only 3 things I am hoping for that ReactOS will have by then: 1. A proper filesystem (with someone working on Winbtrfs booting this year, I feel like this will in time), 2. 64-bit support (there is already a AMD64 PR on GitHub, so I have a feeling this will be ready by 2020/2021), 3. A built in updater (this is not really a priority, though, as I do not mind manually updating, but this would make life much easier). These are really the only thing I have been waiting for ReactOS to have, other wise I probably would have switched already. Of course, I will still have another drive with Windows on, but this will be more of a backup drive, if anything.
Would love to hear from other people if anyone else has any similar goals?