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    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      6·
      19 hours ago

      ReactOS is cloning NT, so the 2000 part of that is correct.

      95/98/98se/ME are completely different beasts, even if they happen to share the same GUI.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
        2·
        18 hours ago

        I am well aware of the difference between 95/98 and 2000/XP. I actually used 95/98 and eventually switched to 2000 and then XP.

        Turns out that ReactOS is indeed focused on turn of the millennium NT support. They say their target is Windows Server 2003.

        I always thought that 95/98 era support was also a key goal due to he history of the project.

    • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      Same reason why there are so many text editors that all do basically the same thing, I suppose. More options are not a bad idea, IMO. Maybe they’ll do something different and interesting.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        20 hours ago

        A text editor is a whole different beast than cloning Windows 95/98/2000. I will note that ReactOS isn’t simply building a compatibility layer, their end goal is to allow users to actually run unmodified driver binaries from that era to get hardware working.