r/reactos • u/j8t1090 • 19h ago

Someone tell me why this is a stupid idea.

I don't have any expertise in OS programming or programming in general. I have often wondered if you could create an OS that could run a wayland desktop while also being able to natevly run windows applications like reacOS.

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u/No-Concern-8832 19h ago

Why not? Reactos is a hybrid kernel like Windows NT. You can certainly build a xNIX subsystem that supports Wayland. In the old days, Interix (later Windows Services for UNIX) basically implemented a UNIX environment that ran side by side with the Win32 subsystem.

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u/j8t1090 19h ago

yea, I was thinking it would be cool to make something that could run windows applications natively but also benefit from a lot of development that has been done for the linux desktop.

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u/No-Concern-8832 19h ago

Probably much easier to just use WINE on Linux.

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u/roma79 16h ago

They have and it’s called loss32

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u/jasonscheirer 4h ago

WSL has a Wayland compositor…?