On Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:31:31 UTC, Theo wrote:
Chris Bartram wrote:
IME Lenovo have less blotware than others, to the degree that I don't
bother doing a clean install on them, unlike others, but that isn't hard
to do if you want to.

I'd say Lenovo is the brand that absolutely needs a clean install, due to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

A number of tech people have never-Lenovo policies after this (and the other
rootkit I mentioned).

Theo

More recent Lenovos have been much better. Don't think you really need anything except their Vantage tool to make it easy to get firmware and drivers.

Currently the worst of the big boys seem to be HP. Not only lots of things like JumpStart but several which several items which are known to interfere with other software.