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Sorry but shipping a crippled operating system at the expense of 99% of users that don't want to dig around and install two dozen utilities to make their comput
by nodamage 5y ago
Sorry but shipping a crippled operating system at the expense of 99% of users that don't want to dig around and install two dozen utilities to make their computer usable is not good.
If you want to argue that anything pre-installed should be removable, that's fine, I agree with that. But arguing that an operating system shouldn't be allowed to pre-bundle basic utilities to play videos, view photos, and unzip files is completely absurd.
- Nevermark 5y agoIf they can ship bare operating systems and bundled versions, as the purchaser requests, it would be useful to many people and for many use cases. I would be more interested in a bare bones Windows personally/professionally. Whether it created a wider market for the basic apps I don't know. But it wouldn't hurt it. I don't know where the line should be drawn, but giving purchasers the choice seems like a good principle to apply wherever it is drawn.