NotSpez@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoWhat is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?message-squaremessage-square668fedilinkarrow-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?NotSpez@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square668fedilink
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·10 months 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-squarephoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoWhich is why you install Linux over it right away.
minus-squareilmagico@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months 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…)