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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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This will be an essential part of industry quite soon. It all runs on old versions of windows and having a compatible, supported runtime will be invaluable.
Might also pave a path towards governments moving off windows if it can run existing software they use.
Wine would still be better though, especially if they have the source code. Can be used like a dependency to produce a Linux compatible package like how Java applications either bundle or depend on a JVM in the package manager.
yeah that's true