@mcc

I was seriously considering installing ReactOS a month or so ago but when I looked into it it appears ReactOS has just never got that Big Community Love and the compatibility of ReactOS is worse than modern Wine.

yeah that doesn't surprise me, ReactOS has always been like that. i think the idea of “why not just use Linux underneath” is a long-floated idea in that community actually, i don't know if anyone actually did it though

when MS pulls the plug on Win10 there will be demand for that

you understand my motivations perfectly :)

Maybe u could even reuse the ReactOS shell. Seems "obvious" the ReactOS GUI probably runs in Wine

I WAS ALREADY PLANNING TO DO THIS WE SEE EYE-TO-EYE

@mcc it seems so obvious and so doable.

i do have a slightly grander additional goal though: i also want to figure out how to make this os have decent security. an os that is designed to let you download and run random exe's from the internet is great in many ways but not in security, at least not by default. but i have some ideas. i would want the user to be in full control of this though!

@hikari it seems like there are lots of sandboxing options that have never been seriously explored in industry because the people who control the sandboxes on consumer devices have a greater interest in limiting what the users do than in allowing the users to do a broader range of things safely