This is the real issue. If ReactOS actually became useful, Microsoft will act against them. Doesn’t matter how cleanly they reverse engineered their implementation, ReactOS most likely don’t have the funds to deal with any legal battles.

I didn’t make it far through the game, I quit once I realised how lifeless the open “world” was.

I don’t know about OP but when I use a VPN, it’s on all the time, not selectively enabled because I’m going to a particular website.

The only time I’ve had any kind of crash was when I did a major KDE update while in KDE, but even then it consisted of the shell crashing and reloading itself. Which I took as a sign that I should restart KDE.

I was sick of paying the “Australia tax” for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world.

Exactly this, except I actually stopped for a long time when Netflix first came out and wasn’t geo-restricted… then the enshittification started.

The first couple commands I run after install:

$ sudo apt install vim
$ sudo apt autopurge libreoffice*

They clearly meant the fine is such a small amount of money to the company that it won’t cause long term change in its practises.

I just don’t wipe out /home when I reinstall. Same /home partition, different distro on /

I am looking forward to Wayland being a problem free experience. Well, rather, I don’t care if it’s X11 or Wayland, I don’t want have to think about the underlying system.

It is still shit, and every battlefield game is full of unchecked wall / ESP hackers, with the occasional aimbot for additional spice.

For real this is The One for new users. It just works.