I got a DELL laptopwhich started getting problematic and manifesting "a mind of itsown" right on arrival (remove the battery, WiFi card and let it sit for more than 24 hours for it to start trying to call home by itself). It came with what DELL calls "secureBIOS" (you don't have access to) and had Windows preinstalled. Ididn't care much about it because I was booting it with a Debian LiveDVD, but later I needed access to its internal NVMe SSD, but DELLdoesn't let you access it if you don't boot using their cr@ppy BIOS into the installed Windows base!
To me this ispreposterous. It is like selling someone a car and expecting thebuyer to only get gas from your "secure, authorized gasstations" within a prescribed area! Lately I have beenmostly coding in Java and I always like to test my code on a residentOS not a virtual machine. I would stress test using Windows Subsystemfor Linux just fine. I like the java on Linux environment. Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within Linux? How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense? lbrtchx
