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by ho_schi 1562 days ago
Good work!

The only "correct" approach is telling Adobe that they need to provide native ports of their software or switching to other software. Regarding laptops, buy business laptops (Lenovo ThinkPad, Dell Developer Edition) or laptops made from vendors with a focus on Linux (Purism, System 76, Tuxedo) and stick with internals from AMD or Intel. So it boils down to knowing things before and giving the right companies your money. It worked somehow, Intel provided first good support, than AMD, Atheros and others followed. On the ugly side we have still ARM, Qualcomm (yep - now Atheros) and of course Nvidia.

Actually the "stickers" with the Windows logo from Microsoft are the proof that the hardware runs good enough with the pre-installed version of Windows. And that the manufacturer has spend 80 $/€ or more for this. Some person also name this stickers "tax labels", nasty persons "protection money". Not that I want to encourage the Linux Foundation...
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autoexec 1562 days ago
Lenovo gets a lot of love from linux users for their laptops, but they've repeatedly shipped malware infested systems. Sometimes they did it in exchange for money, sometimes they wrote the malware themselves. I wouldn't recommend anyone go near them. I mean, hardware that'll play nice with linux is nice, but we're not lacking for alternatives these days.

If a company who acts as horribly as Lenovo does can still be recommended even in tech circles it makes me wonder what a company would have to do before their reputation suffers for the general public.

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ekianjo 1562 days ago
They never shipped a malware that would resist a fresh install. Nobody should ever use an OEM provided OS.
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autoexec 1562 days ago
> They never shipped a malware that would resist a fresh install.

Actually they did. It stored the malware in UEFI so after a format/clean reinstall of your OS you were still vulnerable.

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/12/lenovo-once-again-in-hot-w...

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ho_schi 1562 days ago
Yes. That was bad. The thing is that Lenovos ThinkPads are still good.

Honestly, we just accept what Apple, Google and Xiaomi are doing every day. Maybe they note it somewhere in the terms or not. The difference is, that we've access to the BIOS and higher expectations to Lenovo. On the other side "What Aboutism" doesn't help :(

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