What OS are you running and why?

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Originally Posted by YarisDude

/begin rant

Hopefully, as time goes on Linux will become more mainstream and manufacturers will provide more drivers and API's. I do not like M$ relationship with the content producers (DRM). Why would I buy a OS that requires me to pay and pay every time I want to do something. If I pay for it once, it should be mine to use (personally) as I wish.

/end rant

Linux will never rise to the level of a ubiquitous OS - its target audience has never been the average user and it will remain primarily a server OS with some personal user base. It's been almost 20 years since it was introduced, if it hasn't managed to unseat Windows at this point it is very unlikely to do so. It will continue to be a 'specialty' OS and be used primarily in servers and embedded systems.

However, if it ever does reach the level of a Microsoft OS - you can be damn sure DRM will infect it as well. As you noted, it is the content producers that coerced MS into incorporating it into the OS and that's not going to change regardless of which OS (maybe, possibly, someday) overtakes MS's stranglehold on the personal PC OS market.

Like it or not MS is here to stay.