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lucb1e on June 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad

I was wondering what "crapware in BIOS" is, it turns out to be software in the UEFI/BIOS system that installs software in your Windows install. I doubt I'll be affected as a Linux user. And it's a little short sighted to go "they did something wrong in 2015 on Windows, let's just exclude one of the vendors shipping Linux because there are so many others already".

josteink on June 21, 2019 [–]

It was a shit move of Lenovo, but yes, it affected Windows-users only, and after public outcry they immediately reversed and removed it.

Holding grudges about this in 2019 as a Linux-user seems very misguided, or worse, uninformed.

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