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Machine needs to be fast enough that they can take their constant screenshots of what you're doing without it bogging the computer down so much you won't use it.
We're well past that point anyway.
In the XP days you used to be able to open task manager and see if anything dodgy was running, but open it now and it's like five pages of stuff and it's all just Windows doing its thing.
I switched to Linux Mint recently and it's so good opening the task manager equivalent and seeing only the apps I expect to be running, and only a small page of them. I'd almost forgotten computers can be simple but also secure but also not trying to steal all my data or monetize me constantly.
I understand that computers have to run things, and honestly most of those things are probably useful.
But what would be more useful is if it grouped them all up. Right now Steam is 10 different lines in Task Manager. The components of Windows are even worse, and have really descriptive names like AggregatorHost.exe which might be part of the built-in malware detection, but frankly could be anything. It's not even in the Windows processes section, which I assume is for parts of Windows itself.
My Razer mouse software launches 5 lines just called CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess (32 bit). How does that help anyone? As a software dev I can see it's probably yet another App as a Bundle of Chrome thing, but there's no indication of what launched it.
Usually the more simple they are, the more secure they are.