On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 15:59 +0100, Hugo Roy wrote:
Le vendredi 18 janvier 2013 à 09:16 -0500, simo a écrit :
On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 09:57 +0100, Michael G wrote:
Better still would be c) good, affordable laptop without UEFI and no
What's wrong with UEFI ?
Thank you Simo for pointing it out. What's usually wrong with UEFI (the replacement for BIOS) is the "Secure Boot" feature. Matthias published an analysis on fsfe.org: http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.ht...
SecureBoot can be disabled in most UEFI systems, it would have been better to explictly say no 'Secure Boot', UEFI is much, much more than just Secure Boot.
(and someone may complain about proprietary binary drivers in UEFI, but then the BIOS is usually proprietary too, so I see no difference there.)
Simo.