Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default

Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by highwaylights on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:26AM (#32025696)

I'm not saying it makes it OK, but Apple has gotten a pass for many years for having more barriers to booting another O/S than these steps.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by AshamedCaptain on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:27AM (#32025700)

Not from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178408, not from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31165505

For the record, Google has also been doing the same for a lot of time now (Scary Boot Prompts if you try to run Linux on bare metal, but all is fine if you run containerized Linux on top of Google's OS). They don't get a free pass from me, either.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:51AM (#32025921)

Apple Silicon maybe, but Intel Macs always made it very easy to boot other operating systems, you just had to hold down the option key while booting.

T2 Macs had some complications with Linux, but that was due to a lack of support on the Linux side. My understanding is that recent kernels work fine.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by Tijdreiziger on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:35PM (#32029391)

You could also set whichever operating system you wanted as default, then you didn't even need to hold Option.

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