William Morder composed on 2018-06-25 21:22
(UTC-0700):
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.
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