Re: [PLUG] Linux Laptop

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

I am hoping that somewhere there will continue to be laptops made that 
allow secure boot to be turned off.  It would be an opportunity for a 
no-name manufacturer to capture a significant (for them) amount of 
sales, by being the only brand you can still install linux on.  Even if 
that means they can't buy OEM Windows licenses or sell their machines as 
"certified for Windows X".

Or is secure boot so controlled by the handful of BIOS manufacturers 
that even a small PC maker won't be able to circumvent it?  I'm 
obviously ignorant of the PC manufacturing market.


> When it becomes impossible to turn off secure boot on hardware,
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Greg Helledy
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