I have realized the big obstacle holding back adopting Linux are those four letters “CMOS”. No one trusts themselves to go reset their boot order to boot from USB first. And now days PC manufacturers have thrown as many road blocks they can into allowing an alternative OS to boot. Now you have to change three or four different CMOS settings to allow booting an alternative from USB. I think MS is paying them to do this.
And this will also be an issue with the concept in this post. You first have to set the CMOS boot order to boot from an external USB first.
“I have realized the big obstacle holding back adopting Linux are those four letters “CMOS”.”
No, the obstacle is Linux, itself.
“No one trusts themselves to go reset their boot order to boot from USB first.”
Not true.
Yes, I have run into this. This is not a recent development. I am not sure why it is done, but I too suspect malevolent motivation.
It is often not as straight forward as one would assume. The actual nasty surprise that many do not know how to correct is that when you install Linux to dual boot with Windows, Grub takes over the boot process and often screws up the “Windows Update”. Sometimes this just causes Windows not to update but sometimes it can cause you to go into a boot loop where you end up doing multiple restarts before you can even get back into Windows.
If you change the settings in Grub so that Windows is the default operating system, most of the time this is corrected, but not always. Any dual boot Linux installation can cause problems that many cannot figure out how to fix.