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Practically nobody runs a custom ROM or Linux in the desktop, and if you do, that's a self-inflicted wound.
by vfq 8y ago
Practically nobody runs a custom ROM or Linux in the desktop, and if you do, that's a self-inflicted wound.
- liaukovv 8y agoGating power users from your content is a good way to get them to find other solutions.
- Freak_NL 8y agoHow dare we run an operating system of our own choosing, or expect control over our own hardware. Why can't we just submit to using a sensible proprietary operating system on our most personal devices? DRM hurts honest consumers and doesn't prevent piracy — at all. So why are we being pushed to accept this level of outside control over our computing devices?
- vfq 8y agoHe can run whatever OS he wants and have whatever kind of control he wants over his own hardware. Just don't expect to watch Netflix in HD.
- m45t3r 8y agoI am not running a custom ROM in my smartphone, it is a fairly popular device (Xiaomi Mi A2) and I still can't get high quality streams on Netflix because my device only has Widevine L3. Meanwhile I can get high quality streams in an anime streaming service called Crunchyroll in all my devices (including every browser in any OS I want), most because they don't care about DRM. : It is interesting that for default they still require Flash for viewing video browsers (they have a HTML5 video player in beta, though). To think that HTML5 reduced our freedom compared to Flash is ironic, to say at least.