Cheap Dell Laptops

[Kevin Fries]

You are correct.  Most vendors that I have seen allow you to turn off the
"lockdown".

Essentially,  the question is if you can install an OS without the special
certification key.  If that "feature" is enabled in the bios, you can never
install an thing but Windows on that machine... the bios won't let you.
But if you can turn that off, you can install what ever you want.

Even my beloved Arch handles UFI cleanly now a days.

Kevin
On Jul 18, 2014 6:50 PM, "Todd Cole" <toddc at azloco.com> wrote:

> we the "installfest crew" have not seen any modern computers that will not
> run linux and only a few that have issues that are minor like power
> management issues. or if you find one please stop by the installfest so we
> can test/verify why what causing issues Todd
> windows 8 tablets are supposed to be locked down but i have not tested them
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-07-18 14:19, Bob Holtzman wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:52:05AM -0700, techlists at phpcoderusa.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> From my experience Dell is Linux friendly. I'd double check if it
>>>> will run Linux though.  I think the new HP's will not.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Reason?
>>>
>>
>> I think it has something to do with the bios.  I have a 4.5 year old HP
>> laptop that runs Linux, however it is my understanding the new ones will
>> not.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Last year when I bought a new Dell workstation. After telling them I
>>>>
>>>
>>>          ..........huge snip..........
>>>
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