On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Carroll Grigsby cgrigs986@att.net wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:31 -0300 Itamar Reis Peixoto itamar@ispbrasil.com.br wrote:
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:21 AM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
I realise I can turn Secure Boot off, but hardware manufacturers have often dropped the ball on complying with standards. What if the next generation of motherboards/laptops make it harder to turn off secure boot? Just to make it clear, the questions above are not rhetorical. I just want to understand better the implications as an end-user.
I think we are bigger enough to say no and buy only hardware compatible.
Good luck with that! I've been thinking about replacing this computer with something newer, so when I was in my local computer store yesterday, I asked if they had any motherboards or systems that did not have this UEFI/Microsoft crap installed. Nope. None. Nil. Zilch. Nada. Ain't no such critter. All gone. It's hiding with Judge Crater and Jimmy Hoffa. You get the message...
One can always go through Dell to get a Linux computer without the Micros**t crap. It comes with Ubuntu preinstalled, but one has the option of installing Fedora.