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What about installing an intermediate linux system? Like 1. start with window pre-installed 2. install any linux distro, fully overwriting the OEM 3. re
by _lce0 11y ago
What about installing an intermediate linux system?
Like
1. start with window pre-installed
2. install any linux distro, fully overwriting the OEM
3. re-install windows, from microsoft
I'd say just stop at step 2 ;) but I can understand that not everybody can do this (eg: work computer) but want a clean OS.
will this method work to remove such bloatware?
- mikeash 11y agoIt won't work unless you manage to flash the UEFI firmware.
- morcheeba 11y agoThis won't work because the firmware will write a file to your hard drive with the bloatware. It's scary that firmware will modify my filesystem - lots of damage could happen here. Also, instead of step 2, it would make more sense to boot linux on a usb stick and use dd to erase the hard drive -- this is more complete than installing another OS... but still useless if the firmware is working against you.
- lmz 11y agoIn this case Windows will write to your filesystem, not the firmware. Of course there is nothing stopping a firmware from writing to the disk before it loads any OS, but that is true with any OS not just Windows.