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It was just a way for Microsoft's partners to limit the ease with which one can install alternative OSes. Try explaining to your mother how to disable SecureBoo
by pluc 2y ago
It was just a way for Microsoft's partners to limit the ease with which one can install alternative OSes. Try explaining to your mother how to disable SecureBoot to install Ubuntu. It used to be a single sentence - pop the CD in and follow the instructions, but Microsoft couldn't have that. As is always the case with Microsoft, security is never the goal unless they gain a competitive advantage or make it harder for their customers to move away in the process.
- KennyBlanken 2y ago"It was just to keep people from installing something other than Windows" seems very counter-indicated by it taking ~7 years for a Windows UEFI bootkit to come out, and 13 years for one for Linux. ...and this bootkit is not able to work if Secure Boot is set up. UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap
- 1oooqooq 2y ago> and this bootkit is not able to work if Secure Boot is set up. wrong. > UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap that's like saying cutting the baby in half to end the dispute also solved the crying
- lmm 2y ago> UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap In my experience there's a lot more crap in UEFI than there ever was in BIOS, if only because there's so much more of it.
- hulitu 2y ago> UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap From a user perspective, no, it is not. Booting is far more complicated with UEFI.
- immibis 2y agoWhat do you mean? The boot menu now works with the mouse and I can click on the operating system I want to run.
- salawat 2y agoAnd my bloody computer is potentially trying to make god-blessed network calls before the OS has even loaded, and before my machine even provides the bare minimum human interface, you want me to navigate cryptography? The trusted computing initiative was a disaster to the learnability of the computing field. Devs are users too. Especially the unskilled/ignorant ones.
- immibis 2y agoI thought you said UEFI.
- psd1 2y agoIt is a mixed blessing, the ever-upward bass of complexity. Most people are probably glad that their computers have guis and they can install applications with just a few clicks. The price of those features is complexity. Ultimately, we're all like the Amish: we make decisions about our preferred level of technology. I won't have a smart TV in my house, but I'm happy to have UEFI systems.
- Aissen 2y ago> Try explaining to your mother how to disable SecureBoot to install Ubuntu Good news: you don't need to!