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TheVenerableCain  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will you be upgrading to Windows 10 on Wednesday?

I won't be getting Windows 10. It comes preinstalled with Candy Crush Saga. That is some bullshit. King is the slumlord of mobile game companies and I don't want more bloatware than Microsoft already wants to ship with Windows.

Also, I have a massive library of games, some of which I've had to tweak to work with Windows 7 because they came out when Windows was on double digits, so I don't feel the need to upgrade either.





caterpie  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't know about candy crush. That's quite upsetting.

psudo  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that's some bs. I was planning on upgrading right away, but if they're bundling bloat with the actual operating system I'm not touching it.

War  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bloatware has become such a disgusting practice. They do it on phones, computers, and tablets. Granted candy crush isn't a huge deal, but the practice should never be supported.

TheVenerableCain  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it's not that I hate Candy Crush Saga with a burning passion, it's that I didn't decide to install that piece of software, so I shouldn't have to deal with it being on my system. It sounds high-strung, but it's like if I went to a burger joint and wanted a plain hamburger, but you want to sell me a deluxe with all kinds of extra stuff that I don't want on it because those companies paid you to make sure their product was on the hamburger. Sure, I could scrape all of it off, and we'll even pretend like remnants wouldn't be left on the burger, but that's not what I want as a customer.

Yes, my rig can handle the extra software. I might have even used some of it if left to my own devices, but I sure as hell don't want someone else telling me that I must install this software on my PC in order to install Windows 10.

To be fair, I believe that one you install it the first time, you can go ahead and do a clean install without any bloatware, but it's just the fact that Microsoft wants me to install it in the first place that turns me off. It's the principle of the whole situation.

Plecko  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bloatware is a huge problem on phones as you can't remove it w/o a root, and I understand the rhetorical problems with it, but can't one just unintall the software?

TheVenerableCain  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Short answer is I believe you can. I made a more detailed reply to War below.