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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:00PM (#9304594)
The Linux model: you install software from repositories curated by people you trust - distribution maintainers. No viruses, no bundled adware, just simple no-bullshit software repositories. I have a hard time understanding why techies continue to put up with Windows and OSX.
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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by jsolson on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @01:52PM (#9305451)
Perhaps because in OS X I (mostly -- about on par with Linux) install software from repositories curated by people that I trust (Apple, Homebrew), and then I don't have to put up with Linux.
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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by code_duck on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:39PM (#9304874)
Agreed, every time I clean or set up a Windows computer for someone I marvel at how poor the entire process is, and how little it has changed in the past 15 years.

OSX still has very little adware attached to downloads, in my experience - plus there's the Mac App Store. It's pretty much just Windows users who endure that.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by maccard on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:00PM (#9306411)
Setting up a windows 8 pc is wonderfully simple. Theres an option to reset to defaults, and the default driver discovery is quite good. Windows 8 has picked up display drivers, wifi drivers and pretty much everything else that I care about in every laptop and desktop pc I've tried. I haven't tried Linux recently (about two years ago) but when I did I had major headaches with a Broadcom wireless driver, and a Bluetooth chip, that both worked flawlessly on windows 8.

Installing "common" software is a doddle too, wth Ninite. You get Firefox, vlc, Dropbox, spotify, Skype (now in windows updates though) notepad++, up to date Java and .net run times, pdf reader etc etc. I set up the installer once about 3 years ago and the same one still works, with a one click update.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by sjolsen on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:12PM (#9307319)
>I haven't tried Linux recently (about two years ago) but when I did I had major headaches with a Broadcom wireless driver, and a Bluetooth chip, that both worked flawlessly on windows 8.

As someone who has used Debian almost exclusively for a few years now, I've got to admit that Windows 8 really does handle drivers nicely. Linux systems are generally pretty good about drivers these days, at least if you allow proprietary drivers, but nothing beats total out-of-the-box automation.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:48AM (#9309815)
The most popular Linux distribution for end-users (Ubuntu) comes pre-installed with adware. To be fair, they ask you nicely whether to enable it nowadays, which makes it a few magnitudes better than most Windows adware. But it's sadly still enough to refute "no bundled adware".
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