> who says that Linux always works? The whole context of this thread is me responding to the answers to my initial claim (still hard to read, so let me repeat

> who says that Linux always works? The whole context of this thread is me responding to the answers to my initial claim (still hard to read, so let me repeat): > One should always be able to sign one's bootloader. If it's only 6.5 years later it can be that not even Linux support for that hardware would exist then? And your response finally, the way I see it, confirms exactly that: if you have some notebook for which Linux can't be normally developed and maintained, after 6.5 years the Linux won't "magically work." Which is what I claimed from the start. Full 6.5 years after the introduction, it can remain a non-target. Not as a notebook, but as a set of hardware parts which aren't openly supported. Like all non-Dells and non-Thinkpads for years were, as you also confirm. Being able to install VMs before 6.5 years are over is also not enough.