Benno wrote: > But Bitlocker is a piece of software you have to first install and > then turn on, not something that comes installed and enabled on the > machine when you buy it.
The vast majority of machines sold in the western world come with windows pre-installed. > There is no reason I can see, in theory, why you couldn't > > 1/ Turn off TPM boot > 2/ Install linux > 3/ Turn TPM back on checksum-ing the new bootloader. This raises the bar for people trying to get Linux for the fist time. > In any case, my main points were that: > > - Bitlocker is an optional feature the you have to enable. Not if if comes pre-installed on the machine you buy. This is the rule, not the exception. > - The "frustration" referred to in the original register article was > simply about accessing encrypted data, not about not being able to > dual boot. I remain unconvinced. Micorsoft would love to make Linux difficult to install and would love to make Linux something that can only be run inside a virtual machine running on windows. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Java is, in many ways, C++--." -- Michael Feldman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
