Fair enough. I was just wondering if you had a preference as to what that better OS would be based on. That was all (I accept that many people won't).

Personally I'd like to see it be Linux (not necessarily SteamOS), purely due to the open-source nature of it. Even if the distribution/DRM is heavily dominated, it'd be nice to have more control over the OS.

LOL...nope, not saying YOU get to use the connection to Steam when YOU are in off-line mode...just saying the automatic functions of the Steam client, which have nothing to do with you, don't care if YOU are in off line mode or not, they just go about their background business using your hardware.

As to 'begging permission' to install somewhere...I log on to my account and install to my laptop or my new machine or whatever...just like I do with a Steam activation DRM game. So are you saying that you happily 'beg for permission' every time you reinstall a Steam game?

The difference is that when I log on to my GameStop account I use the GameStop client, which is easy to remove and doesn't do much of anything beyond what I want it to do, while the Steam client defends itself like a burrowed tick when I try to remove it and will use my hardware without my permission if I don't remove it.

An OS with updated software and able to run updated games/software but at the same time, can still run much much older stuff. Oh and still able to use freely, specifically made for computers (Not tablets/laptop crap), etc...

You know, that kind of stuff.

If you want 'specifically made for particular computers' (I add particular because laptops and tablets and such are in fact computers) you're going to be stuck. Windows has always been 'one size fits all'. For years I watched every new version include more and more network components that I had to remove from my single computer system. Now and forevermore it has tablet components, phone components...before too long it's likely to have neural implant components for all I know.

But it has always also been modular. I did remove those network components. I will remove tablet components, unless it's installed on a tablet of course. I will almost certainly never need any neural implant components...well, maybe. Microsoft has never been particularly good about laying clear paths out for custom fitting Windows so I've had to find better instructions, and I've never been particularly happy about having to strip this and that out of the installation...but it's not like I reinstall an OS every day so it's not something I'm really bothered about having to do either.