FreeDOS is great and I love it, but I have had a few programs fail to work because they look for files the FreeDOS developers renamed for no reason except to feel special, because FOSS developers are cursed that way.
So I'm trying a weird fork of DR-DOS instead. I already miss some of the modern features FreeDOS has, but damn is it immediately obvious that DR-DOS is a more solid foundation than what FreeDOS is built on. Personal computing truly went wrong.
I guarantee this is not how anyone else on planet Earth just spent their Saturday.