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It's not horribly misleading, Matt. If you view it from the perspective of the average Linux user, I think you'd agree that: 1. Lenovo is usually one of the fi
by sounds 10y ago
It's not horribly misleading, Matt. If you view it from the perspective of the average Linux user, I think you'd agree that:
1. Lenovo is usually one of the first choices for a Linux laptop.
2. Lenovo obviously has made the call here to ignore the Linux community on their forums.
3. Lenovo has actually stated "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft." -- whatever that means.
4. Win10 dropped the requirement that Secure Boot can be disabled. This has already been filed as a complaint to the EC:
I remember when in 2012 secure boot was announced for the new
Windows 8. I am from Spain, and at that time a lawyer (Jose
Maria Lancho[1]) that was the president of a Spanish LUG
(Hispalinux) create a official complain to the European
Commission about the Windows 8 certification program in
relation with the requirements of Secure Boot.
At that time the certification program describe that one of
the requirement was to have an option to disable SB via UEFI,
but only for desktops and laptops, but not for tables. Now
this option is not anymore required for the Windows 10
certification program. That point was one of the argument
that we exposed in the complain.
Is very sad to see that the circle is closing as we
predicted in the complain, and with this new Signature
Edition thing a new movement in this direction. And so far,
the European Commission is not doing anything in that
regard, and less and less hackers, lawyers, and groups are
fighting against this kind of movement.
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