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Because you want the drivers and hardware quirk fixes that the oem included, just not the bloatware/malware that they were paid to include. Not all hardware is
by ohazi 6y ago
Because you want the drivers and hardware quirk fixes that the oem included, just not the bloatware/malware that they were paid to include.
Not all hardware is as friendly as Linux on a Thinkpad... Sometimes a clean install would leave you without a display, or would put some bizarre peripheral in an unusable state.
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y agoA big green 'Accept Windows Defaults' button on the first boot that bricks the computer would be a pretty big incentive for vendors to sort out their drivers.
- notriddle 6y agoBut they wouldn't sort out their drivers. They'd just tell the user not to click it.
- iso1631 6y agoWhy wouldn't the OS manufacturer bundle required drivers?