Lenovo caught for unremovable crapware in BIOS, so I don't recommend to buy their products anymore.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...
Your first link is about Lenovo's IdeaPad line. IdeaPad and ThinkPad could well be thought of as products from two different companies.
Lenovo was already making laptops when they bought the ThinkPad line from IBM. Their own laptops evolved into the consumer oriented IdeaPad line, while ThinkPad remained the business oriented line.
They're both part of Lenovo, but are largely separate teams with different business goals and philosophies.
In particular, ThinkPads were never infested with any of the stuff you're talking about.
Here is the original notice from Lenovo about this. No ThinkPads are listed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190303121854/https://news.leno...
Sounds like marketing fairy tale - one part of company is great, second is bad, but we should love both.
The biggest problem comes from people recommending Lenovo laptops, without stressing specifically that it's ThinkPads that are being recommended, and not any Lenovo laptop generally.
If you've used either range of laptop extensively, it's very obvious that they're built to very different specs, with very different goals. There doesn't appear to be much (if any) cross team work going on there.
I didn't say that, or anything like it.
On the contrary, I was explaining the significant differences between Lenovo's consumer laptop group and the ThinkPad group.
They may be under the same corporate umbrella, but they are very different from each other.
There's no reason for Lenovo to put a DOS based operating system into their BIOS :/
Holding grudges about this in 2019 as a Linux-user seems very misguided, or worse, uninformed.