ReactOS is focused more on getting the basics right and reverse engineering obscure APIs, they deserve all the credit for that. But their kernel is NT 5.2 so it can't even support .NET apps. That's a deal breaker for any serious use. LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.
At least the developer of LiberNT has sufficient knowledge to work with AI tools and he can review low level code. In many other forks, it's common to see people as mere meat proxies.
I first encountered NT 4.0 at age fifteen in 1996 and realised what a huge jump it was compared to the dOS/Windows 3.x/Windows 9x lineage. I went on to use it for the rest of the nineties and I was a beta tester for NT 5.0 (which later became Windows 2000). I jumped ship in 2003 and switched to MacOS X before XP SP2 was released. I feel a strange sense of familiarity but also alienation whenever I have to use a Windows machine nowadays.
ReactOS is focused more on getting the basics right and reverse engineering obscure APIs, they deserve all the credit for that. But their kernel is NT 5.2 so it can't even support .NET apps. That's a deal breaker for any serious use. LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.