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Nice! Would be great to learn more about your experience. Was Wine not enough? Due to drivers or other features that ReactOS has?

To be honest I didn't think about wine. I haven't used it in a long time. I strongly suspect it would have also worked.

I'm a bit puzzled by this. You can install Windows without having to buy it. You can even run it forever if you want to - other than a watermark and some personalisation options being locked, nothing is different from an activated copy.

For stuff like simply configuring a device, any old ISO or even VM image available directly from MS should do.

I think those are good options if you don't mind sending data to Microsoft.

edit: typo

But how would that even work in a VM not connected to any network?

I hear this allegation a lot without anyone being able to explain how an offline installation would even be able to do this...

If it runs on react os it probably also runs on wine. Or did it need some driver support that didn’t work with wine?

That's a very bloggable story. :-)