How pleasant.
> Second one is about "we never used anything from MS blah blah blah" is an obvious lie for saving face and it is working only with partially brain dead audience
This claim is made all the time but it does baffle me that despite all the work they put into showing how badly ReactOS sucks, they couldn’t put a modicum of effort into the code theft allegation. I guess I must be braindead for not assuming it’s stolen code.
All in all I think ReactOS is interesting enough that it is a bit unwarranted how pessimistic people get. Most of us have long realized it will probably never be a viable desktop OS and that is not really a big deal because it’s still fun to mess with and read about.
I feel the same about Desktop Linux, except I don't find it fun to mess with anymore.
Also, Windows runs all software I need, desktop Linux does not.
I agree with this. After even finding the time to 'try out' many Linux distos and dual-booting Ubuntu for a long time, I keep finding myself always going back to macOS since the keyboard shortcuts just work everywhere without diving into the dotfiles or apt-getting a missing package to fix it or even Googling a weird X11 error that could be specific to my setup.
The last thing I want to do is end up spending days customising, playing around or fixing annoying issues with my computer just to get to work. I don't need to do this often with macOS and Windows. Some Linux distros however....
General users mostly need the proprietary software to do their basic work. Some want Microsoft® Office (Especially Excel®, not LibreOffice Calc), others want Adobe® software, another needs Autodesk 3DS Max and they don't want to play with their OS if something is broken which is what you'll always get with a Linux distro.
No person can take desktop Linux seriously if they still ask about this software still being missing in Linux. It's back to macOS and Windows for them.
When I want the nix experience, I'll get it on VirtualBox (I don't count WSL, personally; though I do use it)