<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">you can have a fully secure boot enabled system with full bitlocker support as long as you leave the windows boot-loader intact so that it has a fully protected chain of trust. you can even do this as part of a partition on the same disk drive as windows. It just takes some planning and working. and not putting lilo or grub 1/2 on the MBR of the disk. (easy BCD is what i used to make this happen.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9528.how-to-multiboot-with-bitlocker-tpm-and-a-non-windows-os.aspx">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9528.how-to-multiboot-with-bitlocker-tpm-and-a-non-windows-os.aspx</a> if you want to read how it plays out but i have done this before and it was rather fucntional and with a touch of reading and planning straightforward to put in place.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">and on a previous comment an example of one of the deals I got for my wife, </font><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><a href="http://amzn.com/B00XYPX1NG">http://amzn.com/B00XYPX1NG</a></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Steve Litt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 14:17:58 -0700<br>
Keith Smith <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> The best time to buy is coming up next month. If you can wait, the<br>
> week of Thanksgiving should be a good time to buy and of course there<br>
> is Black Friday and all the Christmas sales. I only buy during back<br>
> to school and Thanksgiving forward to Christmas.<br>
><br>
> You can also subscribe to the weekly sales flyer from Staples and<br>
> Office Max / Office Depot.<br>
<br>
</span>Here's the next fly in the ointment. Windows 10 certification requires<br>
Secure Boot, but for the first time does *not* require an off-switch<br>
for that secure-boot. So a new computer might be unusable in Linux,<br>
except for the few big, rich distros who buy certificates from<br>
Microsoft to certify their software as "secure". The Linux Foundation<br>
supposedly has some distro-agnostic shim, but that doesn't completely<br>
assuage my fears.<br>
<br>
At this point in Linux history, if I buy new, I value Costco's<br>
no-questions-asked return policy.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
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