[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[Daniel Snowden]

Do you have the option to turn secure boot off?
I can't comment on off the shelf laptops but i recently built a PC with a
UEFI motherboard and i have no problem running linux.

There are a lot of UEFI scare stories around, i'm suspicious as to how much
of it is FUD

Sent From My HTC Desire-Z
On Mar 27, 2013 12:17 PM, "Brian A" <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:

> I am wanting to buy a new laptop. So, obviously I want to ditch whatever
> Microsoft toy OS is on there and put on Linux. This, in keeping with
> getting a matt 17" screen, amongst other things, is a nightmare to
> research. I read a review on Amazon of a Samsung laptop, which seemed to be
> a reasonable spec for the price, but a 'no no' as far as installing any
> other OS.
> I'd be interested to know what others think of the points of this review
> in that regard.
>
> Look for the heading 'APPALLING - AVOID!!!'.
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B009SJCX68
>
> This was written before the release of the UEFI facilitated Ubuntu
> 12.04.2, but I don't know if that would make any difference anyway.
>
> Brian
>
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