Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def...
by iso1631 on Friday July 08, 2022 @04:52AM
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It's interesting as Thinkpads have always been a reliable laptop for linux users - I'm typing this on linux on a t470 (my previous t410 had given up the ghost), but I bought my first thinkpad back in 2000ish, with a pcmcia wireless card.
Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def...
by letmeoknmmm on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:21AM
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Reliable Linux laptops in spite of Lenovo.
Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def...
by dellIsBetter on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:56AM
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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def...
by Avamander on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:06AM
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> They've de-ranked the set #2 and threw it in the bag with #3, which doesn't really do much at all to improve security, but it does inconvenience and disincentivise the users from using a Linux distro on this hardware.
Well no, it's not Lenovo really, it's Microsoft and its Device Guard / Secured Core that has done so. You can disable that just as easily as you can boot from an USB stick.
> [...] the firmware defaults to not trusting bootloaders or drivers signed with the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA key.
The whole point of secure boot was that there is a known set of "good actors" who are trusted by default, so that you can boot 1. Windows 2. common Linux distros - without any fuss, and 3. Any other system - with a few extra steps to prove you know what you're doing.
They've de-ranked the set #2 and threw it in the bag with #3, which doesn't really do much at all to improve security, but it does inconvenience and disincentivise the users from using a Linux distro on this hardware.
It's most likely an honest mistake, a sign of incompetence, or a dick move. Write them an angry letter and carry on.