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Another reason to use Linux 😅
Also a reason not to buy LG
tbf LG monitors are quite good hardware, but I've been buying Dell the last 10 years and never had issues.
From the same article: Dell also uses Windows Update to deliver Alienware Command Center
Oh dear :(
Glad I use Linux then 🫠
Sorry, answered thinking of wrong thread
Dell uses LG panels
Even better!
Funny that before I switched to linux I would see comments like this and would go "mehh" and now that I'm on Linux for just 3 days I already see that people who are in windowslop are like the people connected to the machines in the matrix. They need their fake steaks while they're being used to the benefit of others.
After configuring it to your liking it's so fucking good it's addicting.
I wonder what would happen to a person if they were to install software onto LG's computers without their consent.
A CFA charge.
That's what I thought too.
I didn't order waffle fries!
(I usually see the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act abbreviated CFAA)
It depends on what the definition of 'A' is. Or some fries.
How does the economy work when every company have to rely on addsinstead of their own products?
What do you mean "have to?" These companies are making money hand over fist, not paying a large portion of their employees a livable wage, and choose to spy on us for extra profit.
it puts me off ever buying or recommending an Alienware monitor
Why would anyone recommend an Alienware monitor? They don't make displays. You're just recommending which branding the display has.
Alienware monitors are Dell monitors, which are usually pretty good in my experience. I don't know what the deal is with Alienware Control Center. It's kind of annoying but it's not spyware.
Right, I'm saying Dell doesn't make displays. Generally LG makes the displays that Dell uses, but apparently they also use Samsung and AU Optronics. But even then, I believe there's some Chinese middle-man OEM actually making the displays, and in certain countries (including the US) Dell buys those and slaps their Dell and Alienware branding on them.
It makes sense to recommend an LG/Samsung/AUO monitor, it doesn't make sense to generally recommend all Dell or Alienware monitors. Maybe a specific product worked well for you, but you can't make broad statements about all their monitors because the only thing they are sure to have in common is the name brand selling them.
It's more complicated than that. At this point, a Dell/Alienware branded monitor with an LG panel is preferable over an LG branded monitor with an LG panel. Even if Dell doesn't make any panels, the parts they do contribute and their quality standards can make their monitors better quality than other brands that do make their own panels. I think it's the same with Apple. They don't make panels either but their monitors are generally regarded as high quality, if overpriced.
This statement doesn't contradict yours, they only said they avoid Alienware branded monitors now.
That does not mean the inverse statement is also true, they didn't say they recommended the whole brand of monitors before.
Maybe they recommended specific models with Alienware branding before and will not do so in the future because of this bloatware.
That sounds extremely illegal..
It might be, if they hadn't already agreed to it in the windows ToS, and/or in the LG ToS.
What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?
"Operator, this company is doing some very illegal fuckery! Please arrest them right away!"
Uhhh, I was just sayin...
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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