I don't know what qualifies as a "PC" any more these days. I will say that I don't see much future in Windows as the free for all it once was. We can argue the pros and cons of that until the cows come home, my guess is that this is just an inevitable reaction to this horrible Windows software experience of today.
Just about every Windows app I've tried to install in the last couple of years has also tried to fool me into installing some bundled 3rd party crapware.
If you want an open platform , use one that is open by design in other words a Linux distribution.
>Just about every Windows app I've tried to install in the last couple of years has also tried to fool me into installing some bundled 3rd party crapware. If you want an open platform , use one that is open by design in other words a Linux distribution.
and yet the latest Ubuntu comes with Amazon Shopping bundled. I think its becoming a trend to monetize on everything, both open and closed. No necessarily a bad thing but everything seem to merge that way. Think the future might redefine the words "open" and "free".
There are numerous distributions of Linux out there, if you don't like the advertising in Ubuntu, there's nothing stopping you from uninstalling the advertising features or moving to a different distribution
The point was not about avoiding or getting rid of the "bloat/crapware". The poster above me claimed that you won't find "bloat/crapware" in an open-source os and I was just pointing out that with Ubuntu's recent changes, it is not the case anymore.
That wasn't exactly my point. My point was that the bloatware/crapware problem in Windows has gotten so out of hand that MS had to do something and that something was to start tightening up who can ship software for the platform.
Of course there is nothing stopping people shipping crapware for Ubuntu or any Linux distro. The advantage of open source OSs is that you will always have a choice about how much "nannying" you want from the OS.
And it's also quite trivial to uninstall the amazon lens. This is the sort of control things like iOS don't give you, and Win8 is stupidly moving in that direction.
I'd prefer not to use a distro with ads on the whole, I had Mint during "special search" and it was not trivial to remove and it did degrade regular searches by a lot. Once bitten...
But this is a great point -- not only does a walled garden keep some flowers out, it keeps some weeds in.
Just about every Windows app I've tried to install in the last couple of years has also tried to fool me into installing some bundled 3rd party crapware.
If you want an open platform , use one that is open by design in other words a Linux distribution.