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Originally Posted by Aisorik
^ I agree that PCs are not simple toys, and shouldn't be treated as such. But not all the blame is undeserved. Wanting to have a clean OS installed on a laptop, for example, is not the same as being spoonfed. It's just something that IMO should be there in the first place, same with good anti-virus software and other required basic apps. It's like being given your first ever ipod or zune, and it only works at half speed, a third of the basic functions are broken due to conflicts with useless pre-installed bloat, and most of the apps will only work with third-party accessories. You're a smart fella, so you can figure out how to get it up to scratch, but you still wonder why it didn't just come straight proper in the first place?
Computers are marketed to both tech and non-tech users. Hell the latter probably makes up the majority of sales. So stability, ease of use, and consistency should be damn near mandatory. Why do you think people eat up Apple marketing so well? "Shiny, white, and it just works!" (Relatively) Plus having a stable, bloat-less computer to start off with makes the learning process so much easier. |
Your claims seem exaggerated. I have never seen pre-installed software that makes a computer unusable. Non-tech users mostly just do simple things on their computers, such as word processing, Internet browsing, and chatting, so it should not matter if the pre-installed software slows their computer down a bit. Like you said, they usually have no clue about what the specs mean, so it if is a bit slower than it should be, they would not know any better.