Who Installs the Most Crapware? 583
Barence writes "PC Pro has done a thorough test of the software bundled by nine of the leading laptop manufacturers to find out who installs the most crapware on their PCs. Manufacturers such as Acer add as much as two minutes to their boot times by stuffing their machines full of bundled software, with own-brand proprietary software being the worst offender. HP's bundled apps, meanwhile, have a memory footprint of more than 1GB. PC Pro has also reviewed three pieces of software which promise to remove rubbish from your PC — with mixed results."
Link to the latest crapware cleaner (Score:3, Funny)
Re:2 Simple solutions (Score:5, Funny)
Why yes, I am an apple fanboy. How did you guess?
By the way that you pretended to defer to Linux first.
Even better (Score:5, Funny)
You can remove *all* your crapware just by installing Snow Leopard and logging in as guest!
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
Adobe Reader, and Adobe FlashPlayer isn't crap where. It makes sure you can actually do things that for some reason windows doesn't do nativly. Such as Read PDF files and open Flash WebSites. Relatively common things.
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
Well, gee, there's your problem!
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
Adobe software = Defective by Design. Just ask anyone who has to use CS3 or CS4 for any length of time.
Re:Lenovo (Score:4, Funny)
He's a "responsible IT person" -- you know the sort. I imagine his Microsoft rep told him that Chrome wasn't Enterprise-Ready(tm).
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
Actually he was flaming Abble products. A very reputable brand, just like Magetbox and Panaphonic.
Safary and iToons are great programs. I don't know what his problem is.
Re:2 Simple solutions (Score:4, Funny)
...and a partition in a shares tree...
It's true that most Linux disros come with a lot of excess apps, however, they are very rarely running by default, so its just using hard drive space, not much else.
I do! (Score:2, Funny)
On Fedora core 8. I have installed so much crap I am afraid to upgrade my operating system!
Re:2 Simple solutions (Score:3, Funny)
Don't buy a Mac if you intend to play games
I thought that's what iTunes was for: loading games onto an iPodendo [apple.com].
Re:2 Simple solutions (Score:2, Funny)
I think this thread really needs a geek version of the twelve days of Christmas. I'll start:
On the first screen of install Linux gave to me ...
Re:I'll tell you who (Score:5, Funny)
*cough* Er, sorry. I'm putting the chainsaw down now.
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
You know who installs the most crapware?"
Teenagers.
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
He probably has popsi in his refrigerator...
"Where do these people do their shopping?!"
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
Why the hell is the parent modded as +5, Funny? I don't think it was meant as a joke and I was going to make the same comment myself.
Like it or not, most end users in the business world need to be able to open PDF files and use websites that have Flash interfaces, neither of which Windows will do on its own. Installing Acrobat Reader and updating Flash Player to the latest version is one of the main things I do on any office machine I hand out. Sure, they are minor security risks, but I don't understand why anyone would call them crapware, as opposed to all the bizarre manufacturer-specific pop-up control panels and buggy trial security software that is constantly running in the system tray. That's the stuff we're talking about as crapware, not common add-ons like PDF and Flash that are just applications that run when you need them. And like the parent said, PDF and Flash are pretty common things, regardless of anyone's opinions on the need for Flash for any specific purpose.
The modding of the parent as funny makes absolutely no sense to me.
Re:Link to the latest crapware cleaner (Score:5, Funny)
With Gentoo on the other hand, the shit on your system is handpicked ;-)
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lenovo (Score:5, Funny)
On top of all that, iTunes itself contains half of MacOS. OSX font rendering and associated fonts, graphic rendering elements etc.
So why is everyone so excited about installing Mac OS X on non-Mac computers? Just install iTunes and you're half way there.
Re:2 Simple solutions (Score:1, Funny)
a download link in FTP.
On the second screen of install Linux gave to me,
One swap partition,
and a download link in FTP.
Re:2 Simple solutions (Score:3, Funny)
a download link in FTP.
On the second screen of install Linux gave to me,
two swap partitions,
and a download link in FTP.
On the third screen of install Linux gave to me,
three net configs,
two swap partitions,
and a download link in FTP.