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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by wizbright on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:08PM (#16387134)
Even if a game performs better on PC, whose to say it isn't optimized? Some of Vavle's own games have performed better via the Linux build compared to Windows or Mac. It's also super sketchy to not be able to see what's fully happening in one's system.
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by monochromatic on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:24PM (#16387281)
How do you feel about the closed BIOS and Management Engine that underlie everything?
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:10PM (#16387657)
Frustrated, and I rally against it too. My laptops run coreboot. But the difference between your closed BIOS and your closed OS is that most people actually can choose their OS, whereas fixing the BIOS problem is a much more difficult obstacle.
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by mykull on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:29PM (#16387811)
in my case, it makes me feel double-plus un-good. which is why I go to the trouble of killing the ME on any system I can, despite the at-best trivial impact of doing so.
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