On Sat, 23 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:53:14 -0700 > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to > > replace my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). > > Going to abandoned the Big Box forever. Need to be very portable in > > the next year or two. Two questions to begin: > > > > 1. Many laptops seem to only be able to turn off Secure Boot through > > the OS, Windows 8.x, or so I've researched. However, I've read some > > makes (Asus, Lenovo, Dell and HP) can do it directly through "BIOS" > > without needing to boot Windows? True? Any others? > > I don't have a laptop myself (don't like them), but every one I've > seen so far has had a switch to disable Secure Boot in the BIOS. > AFAIK, that switch is mandatory to adhere to the "Built For Windows > 8" MS program, although it is only optional for the coming Windows 10 > program. That might be something to watch out for.
I've read about that, but right now until W10 in its final form is release, nobody really knows for sure. > If this is going to become a real problem or not, we will just have to > wait and see. > > > 2. How UEFI compatible is Debian Wheezy? What I'm running on the > > Desktop. Or is Jessie the better choice. Or something else > > entirely? Except Ubuntu variants (Hate it!). I don't want to run > > in Legacy mode for future compatibility. I won't be installing a > > desktop, just a window manager. Probably Openbox. > > You can find details here: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#UEFI Yes, I read that during my initial research. > I believe the Canonical people have put some effort into becoming > fully Secure Boot-compliant, but if you do not like them, then that > is not an option. There are also others (RedHat?) but I can't > remember who. That compatibility comes from the Linux manufacturer buying a Microsoft Secure Boot key which Canonical and RH have. SUSE, too, I think. Don't know how much that costs them. I prefer not to have Linux under Microsoft's thumb that way. I have no problems with turning Secure Boot off and leaving it off. It's just that I fear that in the future one won't be able to turn it off. And that will really throw a wrench in the Linux community. We'll see. Thanks for your input. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150523090455.73d0c...@debian7.boseck208.net