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Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?

I am a Computer Hardware professional. I started working with computer technology in the early eighties.

In the last few years, I have noticed a trend where Dell does not provide RST storage drivers for NVME SSDs (the software that allows a user to cleanly install an operating system from media) on Laptops and Desktops. You can try to find drivers online, based on the hardware id’s, especially from Intel’s website, but they don’t always work for your particular model. The only option, that I can see, is to install from the service partition on the device, or from Dell’s BIOS re-installation technology, which contains bloatware, targeted advertising, and data collection.

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