michalrz
Supreme [H]ardness
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Most companies are becoming openly hostile.
That said, there was ALWAYS the "custom install" option in almost all software, and it was also up to us the users to actually download the required software from the actual home page of a given piece of software (instead of going to some shady stupid hub that provides a "downloader" stub).
In the case of Nvidia, I never installed that experience thing and wasn't prompted for anything. With all driver and runtime libraries, I begin with 'minimal' and work my way up in case something doesn't work.
Things are getting worse by the year, yes, but as long as you're conscious with what you are doing - you can avoid some of the idiocracy. In a year or two? Who knows. For now, we have alternatives like Linux, that are often clunky and frustrating, but mostly due to incompetence and not due to warfare between us (end users) and John Smith the theoretical developer of library X that opens file format Y.
I'd like to also express my gratitude to usa_all_the_way for that Elvira pic. I missed that one.
That said, there was ALWAYS the "custom install" option in almost all software, and it was also up to us the users to actually download the required software from the actual home page of a given piece of software (instead of going to some shady stupid hub that provides a "downloader" stub).
In the case of Nvidia, I never installed that experience thing and wasn't prompted for anything. With all driver and runtime libraries, I begin with 'minimal' and work my way up in case something doesn't work.
Things are getting worse by the year, yes, but as long as you're conscious with what you are doing - you can avoid some of the idiocracy. In a year or two? Who knows. For now, we have alternatives like Linux, that are often clunky and frustrating, but mostly due to incompetence and not due to warfare between us (end users) and John Smith the theoretical developer of library X that opens file format Y.
I'd like to also express my gratitude to usa_all_the_way for that Elvira pic. I missed that one.