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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by tomnipotent on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:13PM (#17410435)
> and random stuff preinstalled

It's less horrible if you buy MS hardware like the Surface - only a few games come pre-installed, unlike the misery HP & Dell inflict.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by hackujin on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:16PM (#17410465)
An OS should not have any bloatware at all.

This should not exist and yet it does: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by voltagex_ on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:38AM (#17414106)
Holy shit. https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/blob/master/sc... is actively harmful - it's one of the better pieces of security software these days.
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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by hackujin on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:00AM (#17416899)
That's one of the ones I don't run but I can imagine why someone would want to rip it out for various legit reasons.
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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by voltagex_ on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:07AM (#17416955)
If you're running another product, Defender is disabled.
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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by wodenokoto on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:47PM (#17411722)
One persons bloatware is another persons answer to "So .. what can I do?"

Every major OS distribution I know of come with at least 1-2 games

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by hackujin on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:50PM (#17412130)
Personally.... I feel that if I don't use Onedrive I shouldn't see a prominent Onedrive icon always visible in Explorer or have onedrive.exe constantly running in the background using resources.

So I guess I'm stuck with using hacks to keep my operating system from shilling products at me.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by tomnipotent on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @08:16PM (#17413043)
It's no different than Apple's integration with iCloud, but I agree with you. OneDrive is one of the first things I uninstall.
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