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
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 Toddwindows 8 tablets are supposed to be locked down but i have not tested them
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
On 2014-07-18 14:19, Bob Holtzman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:52:05AM -0700, techlists@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.
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