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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 08:53 AM EDT |
forcing everyone but the
tech savvy to run Microsoft's OS of
choice, Windows 8, on any hardware
manufactured after a certain
date.
I think this is the other, unspoken (as far as I've read)
reason for using a signed bootloader as RedHat and Canonical are doing. That
is, rather than relying upon the user disabling Secure Boot in the BIOS settings
if they are using x86 hardware.
With the signed bootloader, the user can
just install the software. If they eliminate the users who've never had to
change BIOS settings and may not know how to, how many possible installations
have they lost? If they eliminate the users that just grabbed the install
CD/DVD and didn't read notes telling that they need to adjust the BIOS settings,
how many possible installations have they lost?
Saying the user can just
disable Secure Boot in the BIOS is okay, but in the real world... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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