Your PC runs firmware written by some companies with really sloppy engineering and security practices. Whenever possible opt for a computer that runs open source firmware (coreboot).
Windows vendors make extra money by putting spyware on your machine. That’s a big chunk of why a Dell machine is cheaper than a machine from a trustworthy Linux vendor: they have a secondary revenue stream that is adversarial to you as a person.
Your PC runs firmware written by some companies with really sloppy engineering and security practices. Whenever possible opt for a computer that runs open source firmware (coreboot).
Windows vendors make extra money by putting spyware on your machine. That’s a big chunk of why a Dell machine is cheaper than a machine from a trustworthy Linux vendor: they have a secondary revenue stream that is adversarial to you as a person.
Which is why you install Linux over it right away.
Dell also sells laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled (and I still wipe it and install Manjaro or whatever, but…)
Du you have any like about bios and sloppy engineering that I can read up on
Just one example:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/supermicro-ibm-servers-easily-backdoored-research,38697.html