But the popup was only half the problem . This doesn’t change the fact that they did install way more than the driver on that PC. And in fact, no normal display needs a driver at all.
Disabling the popup is fixing the symptom, not the problem. Not a bad PR move, but not real change either.
the hardware manufacturer submits the ‘bloatware’ as drivers or other ‘essential’ software to microsoft to be included in the library of third-party shit microsoft delivers via windows update, which can then be segregated into automatically or optionally installed.
hardware manufacturers are abusing this process to install bits (such as ads) that are not actually required for basic functionality of their hardware.
But the popup was only half the problem . This doesn’t change the fact that they did install way more than the driver on that PC. And in fact, no normal display needs a driver at all.
Disabling the popup is fixing the symptom, not the problem. Not a bad PR move, but not real change either.
How tf does something connected by a display cable install anything anyway?
the hardware manufacturer submits the ‘bloatware’ as drivers or other ‘essential’ software to microsoft to be included in the library of third-party shit microsoft delivers via windows update, which can then be segregated into automatically or optionally installed.
hardware manufacturers are abusing this process to install bits (such as ads) that are not actually required for basic functionality of their hardware.
DP has features like Display Stream Compression and Forward Error Correction that needs a driver to encode/decode.