Posted on 08/27/2024 4:58:51 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Meh. I have a dual boot sytem. Linux Mint 17 or Linux Mint 21. Tossed Winders 10 years ago.
“DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run.”
Old saying from early PC days, 40ish years ago.
Some distros are in virtual box and others stand alone on hand me down boxes.
Anything that is labelled “advanced targeting” is not an accident. Yeah, targeting from MS. It offensive not defensive security. This was intentional and violates antitrust.
They think folks are stupid. And that arrogance and deceptive practice is why I told them to take a hike years ago.
I am so glad I still have W7
I have dual boot but windows is not allowed to connect to the web, therefor, not allowed to get updates. It’s a fresh win 7 pro install that is several years old.
I thought it was standard practice to just disable secure boot before installing Linux anyhow?
If my memory is right all the instructions going way back have said to do this first?
Same here.
Runs a couple of CD rom games I play once in a while.
I like the built in chess game that I can almost never beat.
My laptop is too old to have secure boot in the bios so I don’t have any experience with that.
I think I remember having trouble booting from a Linux USB with even the old legacy bios. I had to go turn secure boot off before it would allow me. But it probably depends on the make.
Won’t break my dual boot- windows 7 which i use only in offline mode for windows only programs and games.
This is like a car manufacturer disabling your car because you took it to an independent shop instead of their dealer shop.
How many people would actually put up with that arrogant concept and practice? Apparently a LOT. Because they just keep doing it.
This is like a car manufacturer disabling your car because you took it to an independent shop instead of their dealer shop.
How many people would actually put up with that arrogant concept and practice? Apparently a LOT. Because they just keep doing it.
At this point in my life there are only a handful of use cases for me to run Windows directly on hardware. I don’t play games but that would be one of them. As the author pointed out, Secure Boot is a mess from the ground up and it’s only on locked-down corporate windows workstations where it makes sense. Most hobbyists, developers, and dev-ops folks who using linux on a day-to-day basis aren’t dual-booting and likely have disabled secure boot already.
I recently replaced my laptop and immediately replaced the hard drive with a larger model and installed Linux. The first thing I disabled in the BIOS was the Secure Boot functionality.
My 2 laptops are duel boot Manjaro Linux and Windows 11 but my desktop has a hard drive hot swap bay and and an OS on each hard drive that I swap out as I need them ,LOL
Windows ain’t done till Linux don’t run?
Me too.
This scenario puts the “duel” in “duel boot”!
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