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The problem with pre-installed is...The problem with pre-installed is...Posted Mar 1, 2007 22:01 UTC (Thu) by marduk (subscriber, #3831)Parent article: Major systems vendors and Linux
The thing that I absolutely hate about systems with Windows pre-installed is that they always come with a bunch of third-party crap installed. Most of this stuff will never be used, so it has to be manually uninstalled, which distributers seem to want to make as difficult as possible. Sometimes unistalling the software can even break your system.
I've worked for two companies that work with Windows. Neither company used the pre-installed Windows on their servers and one of them never even used it on their desktops (they used pre-created images that they would Ghost to the desktops).
I suppose the majority of home users don't know/care about the extra crap that gets put on a pre-installed computer. But then most of them don't know/care about Linux either.
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The problem with pre-installed is... spyware Posted Mar 2, 2007 14:25 UTC (Fri) by Lorenzo (guest, #260) [Link] Let's also recall that Dell has been accused of installing spyware on its Windows systems.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/dell_my_way_contr... and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyWay_Searchbar
Frankly, I'd prefer that Dell offered a laptop (or other desktop, workstations, ...) with no OS of any kind, but with known good hardware that is known to work with generic kernels and readily available modules.
Having them try and pick and choose one or more distributions at minimum will piss off those whose distribution isn't available from dell.
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