Your suggestion for not being able to screenshot movies is to install linux, which doesn't support DRM (or does, but only at the lowest qualities)? Sounds like a pyrrhic victory to me.
This is going to inevitably turn into a mac/windows vs linux flamewar, so I'm going to acknowledge this but refuse to continue the discussion.
>If everyone refused this Faustian bargain, then the services would be forced to adapt.
Like getting people to use dedicated set-top boxes, like with cable TV? Amazon's fire stick is basically that. Moreover I think you're overestimating how much people care about "freedom to tinker" or whatever. They just want their shit to work.
>When the jar fills up, find yourself a torrent client and spend the jar on whatever you want - it's free :)
It's only "free" if you value your time at $0/hr.
Checking the OS version, browser version, HDMI cable reference and screen reference to pray that the DRM works isn't really easy nor instantaneous either.
I'd say it's even more annoying than torrenting
The smart TV and set top box ecosystem work fine, and that's where the users are.
And then if that's the case, it's either piracy or buying a new TV if you want the best quality.
DRM doesn't care that you're on the latest patch level with all CVEs patched, only that your system is vaguely "secure" (ie. has a TEE, even if it's full of holes). The netflix app works on phones with Android 5 from over a decade ago, so similarly old smart TVs are probably fine as well. Failing that, they can buy an up-to-date roku/fire stick for $25.
Which might include streaming at appropriate qualities and being able to take a simple bloody screenshot of what you paid to watch.
I think you underestimate people.
With FOSS I don't have to spend time trying to figure out how to remove the latest unwanted crap from my start menu or taskbar. I don't have to spend time figuring out how to remove the telemetry crap. I don't have to set my default browser back to Firefox after every major update. I don't have to click through popups about new features they want to promote or telling me how I can waste even more money by subscribing to their cloud services. I don't have to lose work because it decided I didn't update often enough and just forces a reboot without my approval. No, I can just work on it and it will just do what I want, not what Microsoft wants. That saves me a lot of time.
>I don't have to spend time figuring out how to remove the telemetry crap. => Use Rufus writing Win Iso., choose no telemetry option, 0,5 min.
>I don't have to set my default browser back to Firefox after every major update => Just not true, 0 min.
>I don't have to click through popups about new features they want to promote or telling me how I can waste even more money by subscribing to their cloud services. => Use Windows Pro Version, no Popups, 0 min.
In total: 5,5 min.
Learn using Linux: > 3yrs.
That's quite dishonest in the context of general usage scenario.
So you pay for the product and then need to download some unofficial shady East European software to remove unwanted features? Ridiculous.
Also I did some experimenting with firewalling telemetry and I doubt thatshady software blocks all of it. I don't believe it.
Actually turning it all off requires very deep modification of the OS.
Get your facts straight. A quick check of wikipedia will reveal it's open source and written by Pete Batard from Ireland, not "some unofficial shady East European software".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_(software)
Meanwhile "linux" incorporates software from overworked volunteers that willingly handed over control to some shady threat actor that successfully backdoored it.
But yeah to each their own. I don't like windows very much either because I can't really customise how it works. While on Linux I can change everything. I can choose a radically different window manager/desktop environment for example. Like i3/sway.
And Linux and BSD (I don't use much Linux, I use BSD on my desktop) are very natural to me because I've been working with Unixes for decades. Like Minix and HP-UX in the 90s before Linux even existed. This is really where preference comes into play.
I still use windows too, on my gaming desktop mostly. And I have Windows 10 LTSC on a little NUC I use for video recording. LTSC is not as bad (even though it still has telemetry :( ). But they should really make it available to everyone.