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The first thing I do on any laptop is wipe the OS and reinstall Windows from scratch. I didn't know about Superfish at the time, but I've been burned enough by
by quanticle 11y ago
The first thing I do on any laptop is wipe the OS and reinstall Windows from scratch. I didn't know about Superfish at the time, but I've been burned enough by bundled crapware in the past that I always include the price of a fresh copy of Windows in the price of the laptop I'm buying.
- pmoriarty 11y agoI would do that, but I don't want to pay Microsoft twice: once for the Windows that came installed on the laptop and once again for another copy of Windows that's actually installable. I miss the days when computers came with OS installation disks. it's like you actually owned the software.
- quanticle 11y agoThat's a fair point, but there's nothing stopping you from wiping the OS and installing Linux, either. I'm limited to Windows for work reasons, otherwise I'd have gone that route myself.
- pmoriarty 11y agoI'm a huge Linux fan, and have happily used it for quite a long time. Sadly, however, not all the programs I need to use are available for Linux. Tax programs, for example. There are various other niches as well, where Linux hasn't really caught up yet.
- wyldfire 11y agoI've used TaxACT [1] since ~2005 with great results. I'll admit that there's still usually one or two other niche programs that don't work on linux, though. [1] https://www.taxact.com/ https://www.taxact.com/