> Rendering useless by bad software - so if you take my linux device and install windows I now have something with objectively worse software than before, and w

> Rendering useless by bad software - so if you take my linux device and install windows I now have something with objectively worse software than before, and where all my software no longer runs, and which is incapable of reading my ext4 formatting external hard drive. So...you've bricked it? Obviously not because you can always put Linux back on it. A bricked device, you have no way of doing this. It's useless. I can't believe all of this discussion simply because people want reuse a word that already means something. It's like the FE devs hijacking "real time". Good grief already.