You are not even making any sense. Company computers purchased for employees don't even come with software installed on them, or if they do, it's wiped clean by in-house IT professionals and their own OS and software programs are installed remotely running Norton Campus Edition.
We have over 5,000 Dell workstations on the community college campus and we do this all the time. Only consumers buy computers at stores or online and use the software installed by OEMS. P.S. Thanks for the info on the Ubuntu Linux. Any nerd worth his salt will always be building his or her own machine with off-the shelf parts and booting from a disc for the OS install on an SSD. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : I would expect such on a company computer. That's why I always bought my own PCs for my private use. I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 on this machine because their attempt to be more user friendly with the regular version was way too developer unfriendly. I would have installed Mint Linux but that would have been a complete re-installation whereas going from Ubuntu 10 to 12 was smooth. A decade or so ago I upgraded my Windows XP Pro machine with a new CPU and motherboard. You have to jump through some hoops to do that such as a procedure to kill the Windows license for the old machine. I need to update the CPU on this machine so that Android emulators can use it. The current AMD processor lacks some instructions for that to work though the BIOS supports it. With Linux you can just pop in a new CPU and are good to go, no hassles. There was an article this week about how many folks are working on the Linux kernel and how user friendly it IS beginning to be. There are people I've recommended Linux to because they are constantly having to reformat their drive and re-install because they are careless about opening strange emails or visiting some sites. On 02/22/2015 12:12 PM, ultrarishi wrote: I have a friend who works for big blue on their LInux projects. IBM deploys those employees computers with their own Linux image with the tools, software packages, corporate spyware, and networking constraints. Also, read this months 2600 about a former IBM net tech who writes about working for big blue over a decade ago and the spyware packages the company had in place for its employees. In the corporate world I suppose I am okay (mostly) with company spyware and constraints if the item used is company property. I do feel, though, that there should be total disclosure by said company to the employee about what is being done with the asset. I think all computers companies should stop this practice of crapware immediately and just put out a stock OEM image on the pc. Include a CD ROM in the box with all the trial where and enhanced services should the consumer desire this garbage. Or, plan B, have an icon on the desktop that allow the buyer to double click that installs a generic OEM version from a hidden partition without the crapware. Every 4-5 years I have to buy my mom, who is 85, a new PC. The first thing I do after running Windows updates is to remove all the crapware and legit programs that will only distract her.
