I love freelancer, it's my favorite old space sim. I'm honestly super surprised that both discovery and crossfire are still being developed/played seeing as it's almost been 20 years!
Perhaps one day star citizen (specifically squadron 42) will pick up this mantle like Chris promised originally. Until then I'll keep coming back to this game every few years to mess around.
Windows 11 is ok, just like windows 10 was ok. It's not great, but it's not satan's asshole like some people make it out to be. Most use it because they don't really have a choice due to software constraints, or simply because they've been using windows for forever and that's all they know.
Personally I use linux because I like it more, though I still have a windows install for flightsimming. I think that it's a perfectly fine operating system for the 80-90% of people who don't care and just want their computer to be an appliance to get on social media or get work done.