On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 05:42:36PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > I would hate to have to do something because windows does it :-) > > No one's yet mentioned secure boot as a justification. AIUI some > manufacturers are making it so that you can't even disable secure boot. > How will you multi-boot linux and windows, or replace windows entirely > with such a machine?
Secureboot has nothing to do with it. All secureboot means is that it won't boot something that isn't signed by a trusted key. So if enabled you wouldn't be able to even boot the installer if it wasn't signed. I have not yet seen a machine where you can't disable secureboot. For Windows 8 it was a requirement to allow disabling it (but to have it enabled by default) to get a Windows 8 Lego on the box. I think Windows 10 has the same requirement. Now on some machines you have to set a UEFI admin password before you get the option to disable secureboot for some reason. -- Len Sorensen
