Talk:ReactOS

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ReactOS has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
July 29, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed
January 21, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

Current status: Good article

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Windows Applications that work with ReactOS

The sentence saying, "...many Windows Applications are currently working." This is not a true statement regarding ReactOS, and this is a major reason one would consider using ReactOS. Almost all Windows Programs installing on a CD will not work with ReactOS. For example: No Microsoft Office Version works well with ReactOS. Office, and almost all Windows programs will not install on ReactOS, since ReactOS is missing the proper DLL files to install them, and other necessary files to run Microsoft Office adequately. Running, "Buggy," is not really working. Most of the programs that are within the Applications Manager work quite well. There are a couple of game exceptions that do not work within the VirtualBox. ReactOS, is a great OS for a VirtualBox, (using 1 GB RAM). I am going to make a list of programs here that are good programs that I could get to run with ReactOS, and in my opinion, this should be an added part of the article. First, I threw a huge amount of programs at ReactOS from my collection. I could not get Office 97-XP to install, Office 2007 was too buggy to use. The only program I got working well from my collection was my Kasparov Chess Program from 2003. The following programs from the Applications Manager work well: Open Office 4.1.5, (XP compatible), Libre 5.1, (XP compatible), runs a bit slow, yet works well, Abi Word 2.9, Web Browsers, Opera 9.6, and 12.18, Firefox 48.02, (XP compatible), MyPal 27.9.4, K-Meleon 75.1, and I was able to download and run SeaMonkey 2.9, and that runs well. It is actually amazing to me that some XP programs from the Applications Manager will even work. I am not able to find much outside information regarding this important information on what will and what will not work, just that almost all Windows programs do not work with ReactOS, yet some do well.Easeltine (talk) 02:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA criteria

The article has cleanup tags for original research, and some information without an obvious source. This makes it an issue with the GA criteria. If not addressed, GA reassessment may be in order. (t · c) buidhe 21:14, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:ReactOS/GA3. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

As I stated on the TP, "The article has cleanup tags for original research, and some information without an obvious source." This is an issue with the GA criteria. (t · c) buidhe 08:29, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see much OG, or lacking references except for feature section. A lot of them is self-published, though. – K4rolB (talk) 20:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]