That's all gonna change though, as I'm going to be a bit ambitious and do something that everyone will say I shouldn't: I'm gonna put ROS on a machine for 'production use'!
That said, it's not going to be my workstation or anything.
The moment 0.3.9 comes out the door, I'll install it on a secondary computer, test some sound cards, pick the one that works best, and then I'll use it as an energy-efficient jukebox. I'll post my progress here (or in another subforum if that would be better, I couldn't pick one so I posted this here) and keep trying out new releases as they come. Next goal for me will be (assuming/hoping that this will work pretty well quite soon

Thanks developers for the continuous effort you put into ReactOS, I can't imagine how much time it took to get this far, but now that it's starting to come together nicely I also can't imagine how great it must feel! Thanks!