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Originally Posted by Actor
Every computer I've bought in the last few years (around four I think) came loaded with junk software. I've always wondered if I could take a new computer and just delete all the junk software before I start using it. The Geek squad at Best Buy has told me definitely not to do it. My son in law, who is a geek, says I can delete everything except the operating system and it will still work.
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Of course you can. There is no reason in the world to keep crap you don't want. Even if it is stuff you want in theory in some form (security & anti-virus software), the bundled stuff is usually crap and should be replaced with something better. (Of course the best thing is not to buy a computer with pre-installed anything but just to build what you want -- easy with a desktop computer but laptops always come with something installed.) But if you break your computer it isn't my fault -- you do need some knowledge (but this is how you get it!).
However, if you do a total fresh install, there may be certain drivers you have to install again that probably came on a system disk (better yet download the latest ones) for chipsets on the motherboard to get best performance, or certain weird system devices. But Windows 10 and probably the latest Linux versions are pretty good about this (installing drivers automatically) and so probably you don't need to do anything extra.
