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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by Shadonototra on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:31PM (#29958517)
lenovo again.. when it's not shipping with rootkits (they did it twice!) and bloatware, it's about limiting HW

a company to boycott

Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by Ysraes on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:04PM (#29960701)
Is there any laptop manufacturer that doesn't ship complete bloat/mal/spy/ware in their products?
Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by Mikeb85 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:42AM (#29963967)
I'm going to guess when OEMs ship Linux (Dell, Lenovo, System76, etc...) there's no bloatware. No bloatware on Apple except their OS ;-). But yeah, it's shocking. When I bought my laptop (an Acer Swift 3) it was borderline unusable with Windows and the standard install (wasn't even using native resolution, like WTF!?). Thankfully runs perfectly and looks great with Linux (even suspend, fingerprint reader, bluetooth, etc...).
Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by fatboy93 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @11:30PM (#29963323)
Probably not Framework or Apple? Haven't experienced these two yet, but don't almost all windows laptops come with McAfee? Removing it is a pain.
Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @10:01PM (#29962900)
That is actually a good question. I am slowly starting to prepare to purchase a laptop for my wife. Lenovo is basically out based on principle here, but can I realistically convince her to use System76, which seems less bloat-oriented? I honestly don't know. It is not like she needs a powerful machine, but I simply do not want to support a customer-hostile company.
Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by fsflover on Monday January 17, 2022 @08:16AM (#29966215)
Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by neither_color on Sunday January 16, 2022 @11:36PM (#29963359)
System76 laptops with Pop OS.