There have been fairly a number of potential Home windows alternate options which have popped up sometimes over time. In our Look Again column, we had revisited a few of these. For instance, we revealed some tales on Corel Linux, BeOS, and Lindows. One other one in every of these tasks is ReactOS usually popularly known as “open supply Home windows”. The venture has been round for a really very long time and set off to realize a Home windows XP-like OS expertise albeit in an open supply method.

Over the previous few years, it has been making some sluggish however regular progress with the rollout of enhancements and updates. For instance, in late 2023, the ReactOS growth staff carried out UEFI booting on a wide range of gadgets like Nokia’s Lumia, Apple’s iPhone, and Valve’s Steam Deck, and curiously, the necessities have been decrease than that of Home windows 11.

Following that, a number of months later in February, ReactOS obtained a GUI or graphical consumer interface-based setup known as “USETUP” for the straightforward motive of being extra intuitive and being simpler to navigate.

Nonetheless, since then there haven’t been too many updates from the staff till right now. On its official X deal with, the ReactOS growth staff has lastly shared a progress report on its effort and it isn’t fairly the optimistic one would have hoped for. As to seems, audio is problematic because of “bugs elsewhere.”

Afterward in a separate tweet, it went on to verify that there’s restricted sound help on

For the report: there’s restricted sound help in #ReactOS for now – proven by earlier exams.

It additionally appears to be like just like the ReactOS staff has been working behind the scenes for fairly a while regardless of not being lively on social media. We may very well be getting extra glimpses sooner relatively than later:

We’ll replace this text or publish newer tales later primarily based on how a lot and the way fast of a progress ReactOS is ready to make:

Lastly, the ReactOS staff additionally confirmed that LiveUSB or USB booting will work very quickly.