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If you tape + easifill well enough you'll be very hard pressed to spot the joints. Tapered are easy. Square ends require a bit of experience. Start in a cupboard or behind where a wardrobe is gonna be. After 1 full room of swearing and going back over a run only to make it worse, you'll get good enough.
Uk style is to do a single skim (or two super thin jobs if your are skilled) over the whole boards once taped.
Never got the hang of paper tape for anything other than internal corners.
BrickMan
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On the plasterboard taping. Are people just painting over the boards having taped the joints? I thought that was a continental style. I'm 99% on older buildings though. I usually assume the entire wall will be skimmed on top of the joint filler so no need to feather the edges.
I have a 225mm head sander (the Planex). It doesn't get much use but it's very good at smoothing easy fill, it was pretty much designed for it.
It's worth repeating the advantage of painting the filler with Gardz. That also helps you to find the myriad of tiny bubbles you often get in fillers. They are filled by dry loose filler after sanding but all appear when you wet the surface.