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by giantrobot 1630 days ago
> OEMs supplied OS installation media or the user can provide their own operating system

I haven't received install media of any kind from an OEM in over a decade. Commonly they're using a hidden disk partition to reinstall the OS. This can just as easily be compromised as the boot partition. So "just reinstall" skips a number of laborious or impractical steps.