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>This is of course completely forgetting the era when every prebuilt would ship with crapware

This was a clean Windows install, not one that came from an OEM. Clean Window installs at least used to be exactly that: they came with nothing but Windows.

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Yes, I read the article. The reality is that buying prebuilt was and still is a working-class family experience. It's all we ever did until I grew up and built my own. Today, many kids are given laptops instead of towers. Those are prebuilt too, and they all ship with windows (and junk) installed.

MS Paint was always there.

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