Re: cpu-x

On 2024-05-10, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Slime wrote:

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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CPU-Z is only freeware, CPU-X is Free Software.

 
For an end user, there is no difference.

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Yes there is. Your freeware comes with a long EULA with a whole lot of
conditions you have to agree to, that most people click through without
even reading, only for it to bite them later. Like being able to run
hidden telemetry on your system and harvest your data for their own
purposes.
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Free Software doesn’t try to con you into things you didn’t know you were
agreeing to.

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Good point.  Even attempting to download the "free" Windows software
that you want, they often try to trick you into downloading some other
crapware.

Yep. You download Adobe ADE (for downloading DRM ePub books) and it
downloads the Norton Anti-Virus installer on to your desktop. You delete it
and it comes back. Fortunately there is a Calibre plugin now that allows me
to bypass Adobe ADE application — so one more reason I never have to go into
Windows.

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