Davor Balder <dbalder@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
The only way around this would be to install your own trustworthy OS of choice and treat your purchase as purchase of hardware only. Most (if not all) people on this list are already doing this
Yes, exactly. Of course, most of those people would rather not pay for the licenced copy of software that they're only going to delete in order to install Linux, but that's a separate problem.
Most manufacturers install some sort of Windows crapware.
Lenovo just went too far...
They make good hardware however. I have access to a Lenovo T440S at work, an impressive piece of hardware. I also own an old Lenovo X200, which still runs fine (it has been a Linux machine since the day I bought it and ran a Debian installer).