[Mageia-dev] [council] *ping* Media query: secure boot support

[Pascal Terjan]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Guillaume Rousse
<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 29/01/2013 10:37, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>
>> As for now Microsoft requires all W8 certified systems with secure
>> boot to allow secure boot to be switched off by user/sysadmin. One
>> reason why I do not understand the reason why all these people (Garret
>> et all) are stumbling all over themselves to solve a problem which is
>> not even sure to ever come by.
>
> I guess that's because secure boot may be considered useful, if you're in
> control of it, of course. And because something working out of the box is
> probably better when targetting non-experts.

Yes I think the main problem is that for probably 10 years it had
became easy for someone non technical to test/install linux, now they
would need to change setup in the bios and would probably give up (or
be scared).