> Like, why buy their current laptops over a ThinkPad Because thinkpads are made by Lenovo who has a long history of shipping their devices will malware and ba

> Like, why buy their current laptops over a ThinkPad Because thinkpads are made by Lenovo who has a long history of shipping their devices will malware and backdoors in them, often in exchange for money. They've demonstrated again and again that they are willing to sell out the privacy and security of the people who buy their products if they can line their own pockets doing it. They've even put malware in UEFI so that users who reinstall their OS get reinfected over and over again. The most famous of their abuses was "Superfish" and when the truth about superfish came out they fiercely denied there was any security risk to anyone ("we have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns”), then as the bad press continued they eventually admitted it was a problem and said they'd stop shipping devices infected by it, but people were still getting infected devices more than a month later (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/two-weeks-on-superfish-debacle-still-causing-pain-for-some-lenovo-customers/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/two-w...). They published removal instructions so customers could rip the malware out of their system themselves, but the instructions they provided didn't actually fix the problem so all they did do was give people a false sense of security while leaving them vulnerable. Once third parties realized this and the bad press started again, they published revised instructions for removing it, but they were again caught still giving instructions that left many users vulnerable!! (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/20/lenovo-apologises-adware-removal-instructions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/20/lenovo-ap...) I'm not convinced that this change is a good idea for Pop_OS, but I'll take the problems this could end up causing over handing my money and my security over to Lenovo any day.