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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."
Personally, I build my own and install vanilla Windows, but sh** has hit the fan long time ago.
This plus anti virus software resource hogs makes windows experience horrible on a brand new computer.
Not a single manufacturer offers option "windows and drivers only".
In other words, you need 4 core CPU and 2GB of RAM to open internet explorer.
Why yes, I am an apple fanboy. How did you guess?
You're a self-described bum.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
Oh who am I kidding, it's because he flamed iApple iSoftware or whatever and the mods are furious.
1. Install Linux and never worry about crapware again.
I dunno ... I installed Linux and ended up with two desktop environments, three word processors, four web browsers, and a whole bunch of image editors, system utilities, file managers, and other stuff.
;-)
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
It speaks volumes about the OEM Vendor that people need to download something deCRAPifier, which is quite popular, to make the computer not suck out of the box.
It's not the installation that bothers me but the assumption by software vendors that their software is so important that it should auto-start.
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Why the hate for Chrome?
Come play free flash games on Kongregate!
> And how exactly does iWork fail to compete with Microsoft Works?
By not being bug-for-bug identical (and if it was it would be dismissed as "a mere clone"). To these people to "compete" is do exactly the same thing in the same way. They'd claim Ford and Chevrolet don't compete because their cars have gas caps on opposite sides.
And the fact that there is a vast amount of software available for Linux and the Mac that is not available for Windows is irrelevant to them because they can't imagine anyone ever wanting to run any software not available for Windows.
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Ubuntu comes with all kinds of shit that you don't want, but there's no other shit available, so you just use it.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Or anyone in the security community. MS used to be the industries' vulnerable software whipping boy, but they've cleaned that up to a large degree and outsourced the job to Adobe...
Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups.
Who installs the most crapware?
My mother does.
No, I'd say iTunes/Quicktime and Acrobat are, in fact, crap.
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Sounds like you opted for the minimal install version
The reason is mostly because the law says they can't.
Trust me, Microsoft wants nothing more than to bundle it's own version of just about every application you can think of. But, the legal system says they can't. They were declared a monopoly and part of that has limited their ability to include things you want into the OS.
I'm not 'Pro MS' or 'Pro Linux' or anything, I just don't care. But I do think that it's funny that, essentially, the same people who used to complain that Microsoft is an evil monopoly and is destroying small companies by bundling their own XYZ into the operating system are now the same people who still say MS is an evil monopoly but advocate Linux because it includes far more stuff you'll need than Windows.
But yeah, it's really not that MS doesn't want it - it's that it's hands are tied. At least, that's been my understanding of it.
Then why is a Dell Mini 9 (or Vostro A90 is the new branding I think) with Windows XP and (presumably) a bunch of crapware $50 MORE than the one with Ubuntu? Wouldn't they be the same price if the crapware flattened out the windows license?
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No, I'd say iTunes/Quicktime and Acrobat are, in fact, crap.
Depends.
iTunes and Quicktime are crap on Windows as Microsoft Office is crap on OS X.
Reverse the two and not so bad.
Of course Acrobat is crap on any OS.
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-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
I think it's actually a secret plan to make people think Windows is slow. Look how much faster iTunes runs on MacOS!
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