Well, finally. It fits their philosophy. I've been waiting for this switch basically since their anouncement of Office 365, which turned writing simple text documents into SaaSS [1].




If you say desktop CPU, then you surely mean the Serval [2] and Bonobo [3] series.
These seem to be based on Clevo gaming barebones [4], more specifically the P75*/P77* series for the Serval, and the P87* for the Bonobo.

There are some other "manufacturers" who build laptops based on Clevo barebones, so it's worth it to keep an eye open for reviews of these other "manufacturers". One of them is Nexoc with their current G736 (P77*) [5] and G737 (P87*) [6] models.
In 2010 I was contemplating to buy one of their desktop-CPU laptops, which was basically a predecessor to the G736/737 series. Even back then Nexoc used Clevo barebones.
In the end I went for a more "traditional" 17" DTR Dell Precision M6500. My main reason being, that as far as I found out, while Clevo managed to cool the desktop components to barely tolerable levels, they apparently did that at the cost of a lot of fan noise.

Maybe that situation has improved, maybe it hasn't. But I'd be cautious to buy a laptop with desktop components. Also, the touchpads in Clevo barebones only have two mouse buttons, which I find less than optimal under Linux.


To be more precise:
You believe you've done that, respectively you've set some options that claim to disable these "features" like [7].
But how do you know it's actually doing what it says if nobody who is independent from MS even knows the source code?


[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-d...-serve.en.html
[2] https://system76.com/laptops/serval
[3] https://system76.com/laptops/bonobo
[4] http://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodet...d=1073&lang=en
[5] https://www.nexoc.de/en/products/gam.../nexoc-g736iv/
[6] https://www.nexoc.de/en/products/gam.../nexoc-g737iv/
[7] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-ma...tical-updates/