On 12/11/13 16:40, C wrote:
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
One thing which is of particular concern to me is that it comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. Seeing as how I am paying for it whether I like it or not I was thinking of keeping it and doing the freebie upgrade to W8.1. But I read this earlier today and now I have severe doubts if I will allow this parasitic monster to reside on the Lenovo's HDD:
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/127158/the-hidden-fangs-of-windows-81-and... Hmmm interesting. The first two things in that article sound like I was reading about Ubuntu (Smart Scopes and Smart Search sound almost identical, and the MS login account and Ubuntu One are remarkably similar).
Aaaah, so THAT is what all the fuss is about! There's a thread in Ubuntu - "Stop it!" - which came about after someone posted something in a totally different list. Naturally moi had to join in - and ended up being moderated! :-D . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org