[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[Brian A]

I have received a reply from Samsung. The main part of it is here:

"My apologies, but as I do not have the answer to your query to hand, I
have had to email our Samsung product specialist to enlist their aid with
this issue. Once I hear back from them I will be back in touch with you as
soon as possible."

Brian


On 28 March 2013 11:44, Brian A <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:

> Reply to Daniel: Well, according to the review, the salient points to me
> are that it is not possible to switch off secure boot, nor is it possible
> to boot from a CD or a USB stick.
>
> Reply to John: Thanks for the link to the article. I haven't yet watched
> all the video that is linked from that page. By chance I was listening to
> the 'PC Pro Podcast' this morning and they discussed the same thing as in
> the article. The response from the panel was mixed but the argument in
> Microsoft's favour was that secure boot could be switched off. However, in
> practice, it seems, from the Amazon review, that secure boot can't always
> be switched off and, even if it could be it would be an uphill struggle to
> do an installation if cd or USB media could not be used.
>
> I have sent an email to Samsung asking their advice on which of their
> laptops to purchase. It will be interesting to see their reply.I received
> an auto reply which states that I should have a reply within 48 hours.
>
> Microsoft is not know for shirking when it comes to 'evil'. Who knows, but
> they could lean on  hardware providers to get them to make the installation
> of other operating systems very hard/impossible to do.
>
> Brian
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> On 27 March 2013 17:33, John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>wrote:
>
>> Just spotted this on the subject:
>>
>> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/23817.html
>>
>> John
>> --
>> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 12:17 +0000, Brian A 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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