Technically “layoffs” are different from “firing”.

Layoffs are typically high in number, wider reaching, reductions in force just to cut numbers.

Firings are targeted and generally (though they don’t have to be) with cause and have a procedure (performance reviews, improvement plans, warnings, etc.)

Not to say you can’t target a layoff to include all your lower performers, more to say that you can still fire someone outside of a layoff.

That’s what I thought was happening here. The headline is a bit incorrect… the monitor didn’t install the bloatware, Windows did.

Now the drivers/software that Windows installed is likely from the MS store/update path and was made and signed by LG, but still. Plug this monitor into linux and it’s not going to do it because linux doesn’t have that mechanism.