• tabular@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Monitor requests Windows OS to install monitor company’s software, Windows installs whatever they want.

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      21 hours ago

      Not quite, Windows detects the monitor being attached and goes “Oh? What software goes with this?” and downloads the package provided by LG.

      The monitor doesn’t say “Hey, I want you to download this”, Windows does that on it’s own.

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          12 hours ago

          Apps being bundled with drivers is not that new. I swore off Razer hardware years ago because their fucking keyboard decided to install a bloated app alongside it - during OS installation as well! A blocking installer, fucked up my unattended install.

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            12 hours ago

            Okay that’s a funny one tho, microsoft makes a bad features and can’t even code it properly lmaoo

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          14 hours ago

          Pretty sure windows has supported installing drivers that include program installs since windows 7. Razor mice also do the same thing where it auto installs the control software.

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        19 hours ago

        This exchange is very polite, I think the truth is closer to an encounter with the Borg.