As an IT support professional I would advise anyone to avoid old laptops like the plague they are far more trouble than they are ever worth. Plus parts of it already failing how good is the rest of it going to be?

Its an alpha with no stability will be 0.4 or 0.5 before you see reactos in a usable state

Separately these projects do not represent any threat to Microsoft however taken together wine dlls ensure compatibility and samba 4 will introduce active directory functions while reactos will deliver a open source windows platform making things much more interesting in the O/S market in future. Al...

Actually do wish the project well but think it should be going straight to proof of concept. A windows clone that runs reactionx in every way its expected to. Widely available driver support is pointless if the system cannot prove its capable of doing what it was envisaged to do in the first place. ...

Lets see 10 years to reach 0.3 so 0.3+0.3+0.3+0.03+0.03+0.03+0.01=33+ years to version 1.0

But don't anyone be alarmed in 10 years time we will be at version 0.6 that's gonna be a relief.

Always remember you should never rush cos speed kills