What about firewalls?

I am also reconsidering using this in VirtualBox inside Ubuntu since WINE doesn't seem to do anything. If VirtualBox has it's own internal firewall, then this is my definite alternative to WINE.

Hello again. I have another question.

Will ZoneAlarm work on the current 0.4.11? I searched the forums and the only found that it doesn't work on 0.3.9 RC, but that was way back in 2009.

If ZoneAlarm doesn't work, what antivirus and firewall should I use with ReactOS?

I have a computer with 2 GPUs: one Intel, the other NVIDIA.

Can I choose which GPU I want to use in ReactOS, or will it just default to Intel?

Yeah, I know, so I have another question.

How do you update the OS? Are their downloadable updates/patches, or do I have to do a full reinstall of a new ReactOS version (which would wipe out all my files on that partition) every time there is an update ?

I switched to Linux last year because I'm sick and tired of intentionally inefficient major commercial OSes/spyware being forced on me. Everything was fine until this March, when Ubuntu released an OS updated that completely f***ed up my system, and it has never been fixed to date (it seems Windows ...