ReactOS is nowhere near enough the quality you'd need - you don't want to waste time figuring out if you are fighting a bug in ReactOS or in your own code.
Agreed. Just last night I tried installing ReactOS in a Parallels VM on Intel, and their ISO installer couldn't get beyond "Failed to open txtsetup.sif" at the very start. The last ReactOS ISO I could get to work was 0.4.11 (three releases / three years ago). It's a worry that such a critical showstopper regression has gone unpatched over 3 years.
0.4.11 did run a lot of Windows software that I use (including my own) & I was impressed with what they'd achieved, but it regularly corrupted the file system and required a full reformat & reinstall, so not something I could actively use.
0.4.11 did run a lot of Windows software that I use (including my own) & I was impressed with what they'd achieved, but it regularly corrupted the file system and required a full reformat & reinstall, so not something I could actively use.