Pretty sure they just include it to get fewer returns (“My computer doesn’t play videos!”) and Acer and Asus here opted to do it without paying the license fee.
Some manufacturers do include far more nefarious shit though. You’re right there. I don’t know who includes what these days, last Windows laptop I bought was a dv6-2000 series HP Pavilion. That was horrific before a clean install of Windows 7, and then slightly later, a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, my first foray into Linux :)
Now I wish I could put new internals in the ol’ HP and it’s probably possible with a tiny SBC, but I think I threw it away because it was half-molten anyway. Loved the “Espresso” design.
Maybe they’re including the unlicensed codec in their computers.
Ahh, if that’s the case, i have no sympathy for a fucking with a stock OS before handing it to the user. Nobody likes vendor bloatware
Not even if it’s a free codec you’d normally have to pay for?
If it’s free, you’re the product.
So AV1 is not free?
AV1 isn’t a paid product being given away for free.
Pretty sure they just include it to get fewer returns (“My computer doesn’t play videos!”) and Acer and Asus here opted to do it without paying the license fee.
Some manufacturers do include far more nefarious shit though. You’re right there. I don’t know who includes what these days, last Windows laptop I bought was a dv6-2000 series HP Pavilion. That was horrific before a clean install of Windows 7, and then slightly later, a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, my first foray into Linux :)
Now I wish I could put new internals in the ol’ HP and it’s probably possible with a tiny SBC, but I think I threw it away because it was half-molten anyway. Loved the “Espresso” design.
Id be questioning what else they changed that I don’t see
I mean it’s probably not going to be much shadier than the OS itself. Fuck Windows.