How many people use CCleaner because an IT mentor told them to because an IT mentor told them to?
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You're running a thing you have no support agreement or mitigating corporate license for that has intimate system access and is a black box.
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Replying to @hacks4pancakes
Surely that also applies to device drivers? And even FOSS not a complete answer, if no eyes are looking.
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Replying to @alexjbutcher @hacks4pancakes
Device drivers have a clear use tho; Without them your device doesn't work. CCleaner was cargo cult homeopathy on its best days.
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On modern Windows there is no legitimate reason to manually install vendor-provided drivers. OS installs the legit ones automatically.
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Does the W10-installed version of nVidia's driver include GeForce Experience? Without it, lots of missing functionality; with it, node.js.
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This kind of thing (bundled junkware) is exactly why I said you shouldn't be installing hardware-vendor-provided drivers. See also: HP.
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One man's bundled junkware is another's valuable functionality that they paid good money for.
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Replying to @alexjbutcher @RichFelker and
But, perhaps, we should all be using Lemote Yeeloong MIPS laptops, like rms, running open source BIOS & GNU Linux-libre (with no bin blobs)
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Forgot ideological purity, it's just about cost/benefit. You get huge privacy/security/stability gains from not installing sketchy drivers.
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In old times it was hard to do that on Windows, but modern Windows works out of the box with vanilla MS install, no sketchy add-ons.
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