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 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.

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.

When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij

Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn’t it?

Not sure why noone has pointed this out but if you use paru or yay instead of pacman, installing/searching the AUR is the same as if they are in the main repo. It does all the building etc for you.