26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
5:20 a.m.
On Monday 25 June 2018 21:54:13 Felix Miata wrote:
William Morder composed on 2018-06-25 21:22
(UTC-0700):
I had a friend who tried to install Trisquel Ubuntu on a new Toshiba laptop,
but wasn't familiar with the newer UEFI, and thus turned her machine into a
brick. Still no luck unlocking or resuscitating it, last I heard.
Bill
Beware of UEFI/EFI ... don't know if your
devices have such new
"features", as it was hard for me to keep track of the different devices,
the various issues, and their place in your own scheme of things. But if
you try to install a Linux system on a newer machine that has UEFI, it
will "protect" you from the dangers of Linux and hackers. There are ways
to disable UEFI, though.
Like anything, to use it safely some (re-)education is involved, getting
the hang of new paradigms. I have two UEFI PCs. When I started composing
this I was doing my 7th (multiboot, adding OS #3 to an M.2 device)
installation in UEFI mode, *buntu 18.04, to become Tubuntu, to follow-up on
a year-old, still open TDE bug, but it's already finished and rebooted.