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Unless you're content with a severely outdated browser and notepad for your productivity, ReactOS is not even close to a daily driver.

In my opinion, for production use it's currently best suited for use as a free virtual machine for old software that no longer runs natively on Windows. If enough APIs are covered, it can be an excellent replacement for an XP VM to run some ancient tools.

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Do you mean that Firefox will not install or work in ReactOS?

Only the Firefox releases that supported Windows XP work on ReactOS, which was dropped in Firefox 53 in 2017.

Modern versions don't. There was an LTS version for XP that was updated up until relatively recently that still works, but I wouldn't recommend using that for a daily driver anymore.

In theory someone could take modern Firefox, figure out what essential APIs are missing, and contribute a set of fixes to get the latest LTS version of Firefox working again, but that's quite a complicated process.

JFYI, there is some work in this space:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/182647-my-browser-builds-part-3...

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