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. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9528.how-to-multiboot-with-bitlocker-tpm-and-a-non-windows-os.aspx 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. and on a previous comment an example of one of the deals I got for my wife, http://amzn.com/B00XYPX1NG On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 14:17:58 -0700 > Keith Smith wrote: > > > The best time to buy is coming up next month. If you can wait, the > > week of Thanksgiving should be a good time to buy and of course there > > is Black Friday and all the Christmas sales. I only buy during back > > to school and Thanksgiving forward to Christmas. > > > > You can also subscribe to the weekly sales flyer from Staples and > > Office Max / Office Depot. > > Here's the next fly in the ointment. Windows 10 certification requires > Secure Boot, but for the first time does *not* require an off-switch > for that secure-boot. So a new computer might be unusable in Linux, > except for the few big, rich distros who buy certificates from > Microsoft to certify their software as "secure". The Linux Foundation > supposedly has some distro-agnostic shim, but that doesn't completely > assuage my fears. > > At this point in Linux history, if I buy new, I value Costco's > no-questions-asked return policy. > > SteveT > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen