Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off

Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by tinus_hn on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:01AM (#15712009)

Well, I remember 30 years ago you didn’t have to disable ads, Bing crap and telemetry. In fact 5 years ago all you needed to disable was shitty drivers and some trial software.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by baldfat on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:52AM (#15712245)

5 years ago it was horrible we all just forget the bad things and mostly remember good.

From 2012: https://www.itworld.com/article/2718342/consumerization/here...

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:32AM (#15713412)

That's all OEM junk though. If you installed from official media on a PC you built yourself (or at least a wiped disk), you didn't deal with that stuff.

With Windows 10, that is unfortunately not true anymore because MS is the provider of a lot of the crapware.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by baldfat on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:14PM (#15715572)

That was what I was responding to. A person recommend that the proper way to install Windows on a new Laptop was to wipe the drive and install a fresh Windows. One person said it wasn't needed 5 years ago :)

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by yndoendo on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:09PM (#15715517)

May be 5 years ago for PCs but still year 0 for Smartphone crap-ware bundling. At least PCs have the ability to remove it with keeping the hardware warranty intact.

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