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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by msla on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:50AM (#15798893)
This is an old troll in new clothing.

Back in the 1990s, people would claim that if Linux were used by anyone at all, it would be as buggy and insecure as Windows 95 was. Because bugs magically pop up due to use.

Now it's claiming telemetry magically pops up due to use. Plus ça change, I suppose.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:46PM (#15799508)
On the other hand, the largest Linux distro by an order of magnitude (Android) is:

1. Locked down (so that you frequently can't even update to a newer release). 2. Has telemetry. 3. Has security bugs.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by msla on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:49PM (#15799535)
Android is only a "Linux distro" if you deliberately ignore all context in how people use that phrase.
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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:13PM (#15803318)
No. I know what a Linux distro look like. I'm just saying that the only Linux that could have conquered the world, through HP, Compaq or Dell pre-installing Linux on the Desktop, would have looked more like Android than Debian.

Actually, it would have been worse, since at least Google is mandating some kind of inter-operability between OEMs together.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by sverige on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:14PM (#15802370)
The main context needed is that Android is only a "Linux distro" when Linux fans talk about the installed base of Linux.
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