When building a new desktop it would thus be a
good idea to look for windows 7 compatibility which means
that secure boot can be turned off then.
OK thanks
Martin
At 22:19 10/11/2014, you wrote:
No version of windows will leave dirty
footprints in your BIOS, secure boot is already
baked into the bios and is a requirement for it
to be deemed windows 8 compatible by Microsoft.
Which is basically any computer you can buy
these days. Older windows OSs will suffer the
same problem as most Linux distros in that they
will not boot with secure boot enabled. As far
as I know only windows 8 and a few select Linux
distros will boot on a computer with secure boot
enabled. So it will not matter if you can get a
computer with or without windows installed on
it, if it is windows 8 compatible it will have secure boot on it.
Note that it is also a requirement by Microsoft
on x86_64 computers that you must be able to
turn off secure boot (though it is not always
easy and there could be other problems with
booting Linux). However on arm chips, the
requirement is the opposite and you can not turn
it off (so stay far away from any windows 8
compatible arm computers you are thinking about
turning into Linux boxes, such as the Microsoft surface tablet).
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