@[email protected] to Ask Lemmy • 1 year agoWhat is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?message-square657fedilinkarrow-up1647arrow-down111
arrow-up1636arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?@[email protected] to Ask Lemmy • 1 year agomessage-square657fedilink
minus-square@fubolink10•1 year agoWindows vendors make extra money by putting spyware on your machine. That’s a big chunk of why a Dell machine is cheaper than a machine from a trustworthy Linux vendor: they have a secondary revenue stream that is adversarial to you as a person.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoWhich is why you install Linux over it right away.
minus-square@ilmagicolink2•1 year agoDell also sells laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled (and I still wipe it and install Manjaro or whatever, but…)
Windows vendors make extra money by putting spyware on your machine. That’s a big chunk of why a Dell machine is cheaper than a machine from a trustworthy Linux vendor: they have a secondary revenue stream that is adversarial to you as a person.
Which is why you install Linux over it right away.
Dell also sells laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled (and I still wipe it and install Manjaro or whatever, but…)