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I haven't found a thing people complain about that I wasn't able to remove. It's usually just 2-3 clicks, too.


That's my point.

I don't expect to have to remove preinstalled crap from my computer.


I'm not Kye but I equally don't expect to have to work around some developers ideals getting in the way of Linux being able to function correctly when faced with an Intel IGPU and an Nvidia DGPU in a laptop. I don't expect to have to work around tons of things in Linux that take way longer than two to three clicks when the alternative is just install Windows 10 or 11 and it functions as it should...

Edit: most of the pre-installed things that people talk about are actually shortcuts that make things install. When you go to uninstall those things or remove them from the start menu it's readily apparent that most of those things are just a couple hundred kilobytes or in some cases a couple megabytes.

It's not like it's not a selling feature on Linux or any other operating system to not have things pre-installed right? It almost seems like something's broken if you install Linux and it doesn't have Firefox right out of the box and it doesn't have a built-in image viewer and whatever else things people need pre-installed.




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