No love lost: Microsoft tries to block Linux on Windows machines

Linuxveda ^ | 21 March 2015 | Paul Hill

[ShadowAce]

[Paine in the Neck]

Good ol’ Microsoft. If you can’t control it, break it.

[martin_fierro]

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

[amorphous]

if you do decide to buy a computer from the Windows 10...

No worries here mate.

[null and void]

DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run.

Some things never change...

[BRL]

I purchased a laptop for the sole purpose of using a linux based program. I had to return the laptop with windows 8.1 and uefi because I couldnt get linux in. I exchanged it for a different laptop with windows 7. Supposedly getting linux running was possible but I couldn’t do it

[BRL]

Btw... saying linux to me is like.saying niagara falls to curly

[RayChuang88]

Only one thing though: this only affects a very small minority of users. Most computer users will only have one operating system on the hard drive, if only to free up disk space (many Linux distributions can use up tens to gigabytes of disk space just for the operating system and the free apps that come along with it).

[buckalfa]

"DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run."

Is that a whizzy wig thing?

[Disambiguator]

So, is this Secure Boot a function of the hard drive, or the chipset on the MoBo?

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L linux

[null and void]

It’s a deliberate cultural imperative to block competitors’ software from territory claimed by microsoft.

Sorta like muslims keep out Jews, Christians and Pagans...

[molson209]

I have not tried it yet ,but I was told to get EasyBCD

[ShadowAce]

It’s a function of the chipset on the motherboard, I believe.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Just like what Microsoft did to OS/2 back in the '90s.

Both superior Operating Systems to any concurrent version of Windows.

[martin_fierro]

So, is this Secure Boot a function of the hard drive, or the chipset on the MoBo?

The latter, I believe. UEFI was touted as a more secure alternative to the ancient BIOS chip.

[MeganC]

This is weird, but to run Linux on a W8 machine you can use the beta of W10 to delete the partitions (and hidden elements of BitLocker). Once W10 does this stop the W10 install and then install what you want. One of my very close friends did this on an HP 820g1 laptop and I got to see it done.

[Disambiguator]

Thanks. That was my suspicion. I’m planning on doing a Linux build in the near future to replace my 10 year old desktop, so I guess I’ll have to be extra careful about selecting components.

[Ghost of SVR4]

I’d really like to know which linux distro’s those are.
I run OpenSuSE and my OS footprint is less than 1.5G (that is including Libre, extra drivers, and lots of productivity apps for work. I also run a windows 7 vm for work (so it has to be fully patched) and it is clocking in at 15G. The VM eats more drive space than my bare metal linux installation.