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> I bought a laptop with Windows 10 with secure boot that cannot be disabled. I am stuck with it. FOREVER. I guess someone missed the news 5 or so years ago th
by josteink 10y ago
> I bought a laptop with Windows 10 with secure boot that cannot be disabled. I am stuck with it. FOREVER.
I guess someone missed the news 5 or so years ago that Linux supports secure boot perfectly well.
It's an open spec any anyone is free to implement it. And Linux devs did! Amazing, eh?
Looking at your comment, I guess this is how life looks for the people who read and spread FUD on the internet without never actually checking out any of the claims them selves.
You've locked yourself down. And secure boot had nothing to do with it. Interesting eh?
- milankragujevic 10y agoI'm writing Ubuntu 16.10 to a USB now. Will report back if it works and how well it works. Thanks.
- trome 10y agoDebian works too, just FYI.
- milankragujevic 10y agoDon't like it, lack of proprietary drivers is a no-go for me and my cheap hardware.
- trome 10y agoThe non-free repository is well maintained, it is not as if Debian is Trisquel or something, the Debian Developers are reasonable people.
- milankragujevic 10y agoI understand. I used to use Debian on an old Radeon card in 2009 on my first computer (was 9 yrs old at the time, got a family friend to install Debian Lenny for me). Used it up to Wheezy. Then I got new hardware, Debian wouldn't recognize the WiFi card and I kind of switched to Ubuntu. Then got other new hardware, Linux wouldn't work, shitty AMD APUs... I'm right now installing Ubuntu 16.10 on a new model netbook and it works pretty well, everything was recognized, and I'm typing this on it. It's very smooth and fast, but on an E1-2100 AMD APU it's extremely stuttering and slow and unreliable and crashing. And that's both with FOSS and Closed Source drivers.
- milankragujevic 10y agoHa Ha it won't boot, because of SecureBoot which cannot be disabled without disabling UEFI which causes a delay of 10 seconds on power up. Stupid computers ugh!
- josteink 10y agoYou seem like a prime target for this article here: https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/ https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-...
- trome 10y agoAre you I/O limited perchance? I have a really low end x100e, and even that doesn't stutter. Your E1-2100 should be head and shoulders above it performance wise, hopefully it is less of a space heater too (tho the x100e gets 5hrs despite that)!
- milankragujevic 10y agoNo, the laptop has an SSD.