News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on In Defense of Free Software: My Case Against Lenovo in Mexico.

Re:In Defense of Free Software: My Case Against Lenovo in Me... by tzs on Sunday July 03, 2016 @09:09PM (#12028422)
Google seems to turn up numerous people having no trouble disabling Secure Boot and installing Linux on that model computer. I wonder if the problem is confined to particular sub-models or particular revisions of the BIOS?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:In Defense of Free Software: My Case Against Lenovo in Me... by speeder on Sunday July 03, 2016 @10:45PM (#12028674)
I had a asus n46vm with the buggy behavior... but found noone else complaining about it on Google.

Since it also had other quirks (usb 3.0 port never worked) it might be a hardware defect interacting with the boot process.

[ Parent | on HN ]