Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop...
by dserban on Friday February 14, 2014 @08:20AM
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> "Installing Linux on a laptop recently was a pain thanks to the secure boot nonsense, but I got there."
Is it easier if you just temporarily remove the HDD, boot the laptop, get thrown into the UEFI settings, remove the unwanted crypto key, then put the HDD back in again? I was thinking about doing that the last time someone asked me to install Linux on their secureboot laptop.
Installing Linux on a laptop recently was a pain thanks to the secure boot nonsense, but I got there. Using windows while before getting it installed was terrible. There is a whole load of unintuitive stuff (closing a fullscreen app by dragging it down? That's obvious!).
It takes 3 or 4 actions to shut the computer down if I remember correctly - find the charm menu, click it, click shutdown, confirm. There are some gestures (I still don't know what) that flip between the start menu and the app you are on. So you end up clicking an app in the start menu, moving to the part of the screen you want to click, and trigger the gesture t go back to the start menu. The whole experience was awful (and I was only really using the computer for surfing the web for articles about dual booting Linux with secure boot).
One thing I am really enjoying about Linux just now, is that no matter what crap gets shoved onto the latest and greatest desktop, I can choose a different one. Xfce is currently very nice. Feels like what windows XP did.