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That’s wild that it’s a BIOS setting. Just an extra level of fuck you.

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It’s for the more novice users who can assemble a PC but don’t ever think go download / install drivers afterwards.

Most of the motherboard OEMs do this. I get a lot fewer tickets where the root cause of the issue can be boiled down to “never installed drivers afterwards installing Windows”, which is also helped by the fact that many drivers are also served through Windows Update.

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Operational drivers, sure i can see some valid use there.

But this is crapware.

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I’m quite happy to install it, disable its startup background functions, and then use it to install / update drivers periodically. Much less tedious than doing it the manual way, especially when managing 10-20 systems per week.

There’s a bunch of other potential functions but I simply don’t bother with them.

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It makes sense on my ROG Ally X.

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