Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by josteink on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:47AM (#12548090)

Except windows 10s drivers are compatible with windows 8 and 7, since the driver model haven't changed since then.

So using that install media you can extract the drivers and install older windows versions anyway.

So it's a pretty crappy conspiracy :)

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by beagle3 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:22AM (#12548995)

Not at all. To be effective, it doesn't need to stop a very determined user (as evidence, someone reflashed the bios so they could install Linux).

And it does effectively stop users from installing Linux, Win7, Win8 and even Win10 - except from the provided Lenovo install media; which makes Microsoft happy (no Win7/Win8) and Lenovo happy (full control of installed versions).

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by tunap on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:01AM (#12548195)

To clarify, the extracted drivers will load for 7/8/8.1 without editing an inf file?

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by edoceo on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:13AM (#12548893)

You will have lots of manual digging to find the right drivers and will likely need to edit inf files.

The API/ABI for drivers didn't change between 7,8,10

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by josteink on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:10AM (#12548271)

I'm speaking of Windows drivers in general. I can't make any specific guarantees for these particular drivers, but I don't see why they should be different.

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