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| Authored by: kjs on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 01:07 PM EST |
agreed! If I can't install whatever I want by simply booting from the install CD
I won't buy it.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 04:14 PM EST |
Windows users are already paranoid. Don't click on this,
don't push that button, don't ever let anyone else use the
computer etc... I think the impact of the idea that linux
will "brick my machine" will extend that paranoia only
marginally. We do need an updated bios, no doubt about that
but fear of the outside world has the potential to do as
much harm as it does good to their user base, when people
break out of the trap they finally realize they are in they
won't ever go back. I have a Win user at work that refuses
to reinstate the classic view in Win 8 (Disabling Metro) by
changing a single registry key, he considers it a terrible
hack in spite of the blotation in the registry that he
seems to be aware of. It's pretty easy to convince somebody
like that of just about anything computer related, I.E.: the
real problem is Samsung and Win 8. Win 8 is just unpopular
enough to drag a few brand names down with it. OTOH, we
really do need a "Certified to run Linux" sticker and the
support of some of the bigger users to make something
similar to that happen. Some of the upstream maintainers
could start to reject patches, not in a huge way but enough
so that the big guys get the idea. Our bargaining position
is not that weak. We do not have a big enough market share
(yet) to be threatened on the Laptop/Net-Notebook and the
users we do have are too smart to believe Linux is the
problem. UEFI as it is currently constituted needs to be
rejected at the developer level but we will need
motherboards from friendlies and a bios development process
that goes hand in hand. So yes, draw the line and take a
little risk. It won't be long before the "older machines"
work better and getting legacy hardware off the market
will take a while. Not long after that, Linux certified
hardware will show up everywhere I would hope. If not,
like some if not most Linux users I will find hardware
somewhere that works for me and "The year of the Linux
desktop" can fly under the radar for another century
if it wants too, that's OK with me, but I'd much rather
see the kernel guys step up and fire a shot across the
Intel bow.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 03:16 PM EST |
If you need to boot Linux, why did you buy a win8 machine in the first place?
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