Good ol’ Microsoft. If you can’t control it, break it.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
No worries here mate.
DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run.
Some things never change...
I purchased a laptop for the sole purpose of using a linux based program. I had to return the laptop with windows 8.1 and uefi because I couldnt get linux in. I exchanged it for a different laptop with windows 7. Supposedly getting linux running was possible but I couldn’t do it
Only one thing though: this only affects a very small minority of users. Most computer users will only have one operating system on the hard drive, if only to free up disk space (many Linux distributions can use up tens to gigabytes of disk space just for the operating system and the free apps that come along with it).
So, is this Secure Boot a function of the hard drive, or the chipset on the MoBo?
M4L linux
I have not tried it yet ,but I was told to get EasyBCD
Both superior Operating Systems to any concurrent version of Windows.
So if you need to troubleshoot windows or copy your files off the hard drive because windows will not boot then you cannot insert a Linux cd to boot to?
How about a usb flash drive?
All the really good stuff in Windows was developed by Intel like USB, PCIe and advanced power management.
The rest of Windows is a hack.
If Apple can get a true USB working seamlessly, MS will be in serious trouble.
Couldn’t someone get around this by running other Operating Systems on VMs?
Would anyone at all like to bet against Microsoft offering special deals for those system makers that completely exclude Linux? I need some easy money.
I’m thinking that if I ever get afflicted with Windows 10 (an unfortunate reality due to work obligations), I’ll just build Linux Virtual Machines for when I’m not using it for work stuff and surf/game/etc within that VM.
Lots of big corporations have severely hurt themselves by taking a “my way or the highway” approach. Sony comes to mind with Betamax and several other schemes.
Right now Microsoft is “danger close” to forcing millions of users to use Linux exclusively. It does so by being arrogant, insulting, intrusive, and so top heavy that users have no other choice.
All that is needed is for some company to produce a version of Linux that is efficient because it provides what users want, not what they think users need.
1. Didn’t Fedora have to pay MS $1 to get Fedora signed?
2. There are two cases - one is you have a *computer* preloaded with windoze. Second case is you buy a *Mobo* a CPU, RAM etc. I think there will always be Mobos that you can buy that will load linux.
So...just run a Linux OS in a VM using Virtual Box. I've done it and it works great. You even have access to the Windows OS for file sharing between the two.
In fact, you can run a bridged connection to the hardware NIC and then shut off TCP/IP on the Windows side...thus denying access to Windows via the internet. So go ahead and use XP if you like.