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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by ohazi on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:54PM (#26093842)
Because you want the drivers and hardware quirk fixes that the oem included, just not the bloatware/malware that they were paid to include.

Not all hardware is as friendly as Linux on a Thinkpad... Sometimes a clean install would leave you without a display, or would put some bizarre peripheral in an unusable state.

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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by iso1631 on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:54AM (#26112029)
Why wouldn't the OS manufacturer bundle required drivers?
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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by xirbeosbwo1234 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:06PM (#26093981)
A big green 'Accept Windows Defaults' button on the first boot that bricks the computer would be a pretty big incentive for vendors to sort out their drivers.
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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by notriddle on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:42PM (#26094480)
But they wouldn't sort out their drivers. They'd just tell the user not to click it.
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