News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft. Parent comment

Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by omegabravo on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:33AM (#17895561)
I remember Ubuntu coming installed with Amazon links. It certainly did require special knowledge to remove it.

https://www.lifewire.com/remove-amazon-application-from-ubun...

At least with Windows you can just right click, uninstall. That is until vendors break that mechanism too

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by inapis on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:42AM (#17896363)
If you are using Ubuntu, then you atleast have some knowledge about the OS and would be savvy enough to Google and run some commands on the terminal to fix it.

Compared to Windows, which has a huge user base with absolutely no understanding of how the OS works and what to do if you don't like it OOTB.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by boomboomsubban on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:02AM (#17896119)
The current version of Ubuntu just has an affiliate link to Amazon. It may be overly difficult to remove and upsetting to some users, but it's nowhere near as egregious as the software many Windows machine are shipped with.
[ Parent | on HN ]