Windows 8 Computers -- not off topic!

[Brian Cluff]

I can only speak about my one install.  I recently blew away windows 8 
on an Asus G76V.  I turned off secure boot and other than a small false 
start where the video card wasn't very well supported by the nouveau 
drivers, I just simply rebooted with the nomode set parameter and all 
went well.  The machine is perfectly supported out of the box with the 
one addition of the nvidia proprietary drivers.

I had thought about doing a dual boot just for the once in a blue moon 
that I actually need windows, but after watching people try and use 
windows 8 on the web, I decided that my life will probably be much 
better off without that sort of frustration, so I blew away the entire 
thing including the restore partition.  Considering that I haven't had a 
working windows computer in my house in over 8 years, I'll probably be OK :)

I didn't even try and install anything with secure boot turned on, maybe 
I'll try later once it's a little better supported.  I just figured that 
I've never had a single problem with any of my computer that didn't even 
have secure boot, I'm certainly not going to miss having it now.

Brian Cluff

On 02/05/2013 09:14 PM, Nathan England wrote:
> Hello Hello,
>
> I read another article about the horrors of getting linux to run on a
> UEFI windows 8 machine. But I have NOT seen any articles discussing the
> option of NOT dual-booting!
>
> Is it dual-booting that causes the problems? What if I am willing to
> destroy Windows 8 and only load linux? Will I have problems?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Nathan England
>
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