You can also open registries from windows install with it.

Just so you know Proton VPN has port forwarding if you can afford them.

Sadly doing it on the router would not be enough. Not a problem if you are browsing of course. But if you host, needs to listen on a specific port or whatever it gets annoying. And obviously piracy.

CGNAT

I am so sorry. How do you usually circumvent that bs ?

No port forward though (I understand why but it is still annoying)

What year is it ?

KDE. Historicaly I was using Gnome (1 then 2) but Gnome3 was just … So I switched to KDE and never looked back since, it so customizable that I can set it just right for me. No shade to the great work made by the Gnome3 team but I am a KDE guy now…