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Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?


From: Lennart Sorensen
Subject: Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:44:36 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:29:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> For people who are not experts, trying Linux or another operating
> system becomes much more intimidating.  They have to go into the
> BIOS and change something.  Then, to go back to Windows, they have
> to do it again.

No windows boots fine without the secure boot enabled.

> Will this discourage users from trying something else?  You bet.

Oh that's for sure.  That part is clearly on purpose. :)

> But is is for private computers.  My LUG frequently gives out DVDs
> with various Live system and say try it.  That will become much more
> problematic.
> 
> I still don't know how someone is supposed to be able to boot
> Windows within a VM with this new paradigm.

Windows will work fine without secure boot, it just won't have the
malware protection secure boot is supposed to offer.

-- 
Len Sorensen



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