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Who Installs the Most Crapware?
Barence writes "PC Pro has done a thorough test of the software bundled by nine of the leading laptop manufacturers to find out who installs the most crapware on their PCs. Manufacturers such as Acer add as much as two minutes to their boot times by stuffing their machines full of bundled software, with own-brand proprietary software being the worst offender. HP's bundled apps, meanwhile, have a memory footprint of more than 1GB. PC Pro has also reviewed three pieces of software which promise to remove rubbish from your PC — with mixed results."
This will get 100% of the crap off your system or your money back!
Why yes, I am an apple fanboy. How did you guess?
By the way that you pretended to defer to Linux first.
You can remove *all* your crapware just by installing Snow Leopard and logging in as guest!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Adobe Reader, and Adobe FlashPlayer isn't crap where. It makes sure you can actually do things that for some reason windows doesn't do nativly. Such as Read PDF files and open Flash WebSites. Relatively common things.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I take my sense of humor seriously.
Well, gee, there's your problem!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Please, turn in your geek card on the way out.
Adobe software = Defective by Design. Just ask anyone who has to use CS3 or CS4 for any length of time.
If our elected representatives no longer represent us, do we still live in a Democracy?
He's a "responsible IT person" -- you know the sort. I imagine his Microsoft rep told him that Chrome wasn't Enterprise-Ready(tm).
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
Actually he was flaming Abble products. A very reputable brand, just like Magetbox and Panaphonic.
Safary and iToons are great programs. I don't know what his problem is.
...and a partition in a shares tree...
It's true that most Linux disros come with a lot of excess apps, however, they are very rarely running by default, so its just using hard drive space, not much else.
On Fedora core 8. I have installed so much crap I am afraid to upgrade my operating system!
Don't buy a Mac if you intend to play games
I thought that's what iTunes was for: loading games onto an iPodendo.
I think this thread really needs a geek version of the twelve days of Christmas. I'll start:
On the first screen of install Linux gave to me ...
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
But she needs three different Emoticon Buddy programs, software for a dozen spyware-riddled, kitschy games websites, and four different antivirus trials! And dammit, if you delete them off, she's going to put them right back on as soon as you leave, because what good is this computer thingy without dancing smiley faces in emails??
*cough* Er, sorry. I'm putting the chainsaw down now.
10 FILL MUG WITH COFFEE
20 DRINK COFFEE
30 GOTO 10
You know who installs the most crapware?"
Teenagers.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
He probably has popsi in his refrigerator...
"Where do these people do their shopping?!"
No sig for the moment.
Why the hell is the parent modded as +5, Funny? I don't think it was meant as a joke and I was going to make the same comment myself.
Like it or not, most end users in the business world need to be able to open PDF files and use websites that have Flash interfaces, neither of which Windows will do on its own. Installing Acrobat Reader and updating Flash Player to the latest version is one of the main things I do on any office machine I hand out. Sure, they are minor security risks, but I don't understand why anyone would call them crapware, as opposed to all the bizarre manufacturer-specific pop-up control panels and buggy trial security software that is constantly running in the system tray. That's the stuff we're talking about as crapware, not common add-ons like PDF and Flash that are just applications that run when you need them. And like the parent said, PDF and Flash are pretty common things, regardless of anyone's opinions on the need for Flash for any specific purpose.
The modding of the parent as funny makes absolutely no sense to me.
and boobies become poopies!!!
On top of all that, iTunes itself contains half of MacOS. OSX font rendering and associated fonts, graphic rendering elements etc.
So why is everyone so excited about installing Mac OS X on non-Mac computers? Just install iTunes and you're half way there.
un-ALTERED reproduction and dissimination of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED
On the first screen of install Linux gave to me,
a download link in FTP.
On the second screen of install Linux gave to me,
One swap partition,
and a download link in FTP.
On the first screen of install Linux gave to me,
a download link in FTP.
On the second screen of install Linux gave to me,
two swap partitions,
and a download link in FTP.
On the third screen of install Linux gave to me,
three net configs,
two swap partitions,
and a download link in FTP.