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Which company has a better reputation Lenovo or ASUS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39088745

Lenovo or ASUS? Trying to figure out which laptop to go with.

Which company has a better reputation (in quality, privacy...), or are they both bad?

EDIT: I have come to the conclusion that both Lenovo and ASUS are extremely terrible, anyone who sees this post should go straight to framework laptop

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[–] Lyubo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think Lenovo has the worst with their spyware and adware built into their BIOS. Video from Louis Rossmann I have very bad experience with Lenovo's business laptops hardware and software but Asus laptops aren't very different either. Asus' quality control seems to be garbage and their customer service even more garbage. Choose your enemy.

Or go with Framework if possible. ⚙️✨

[–] naitro@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

AFAIK the ad/spyware wasn't BIOS level, it was "only" bundled with the preinstalled windows. Also, while it doesn't exonerate lenovo, the spyware doesn't exist anymore.

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lost faith in all of them, framework is the best

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I guess don't buy a laptop then 🥲

This doesn't seem like a deal breaker though, they are simply supporting another open source project they want to use, that's all I'm reading from the post.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Up to each one to decide, really. Fw had really interesting products and seem to treat Linux as a first class citizen.

The CEOs non-answer and amazingly loud continuing support to a pointless script by a known problem developer is weird and unfortunate. Monetarily small, but visually loud, as these things tend to be.