I don't see much of a problem - it only affects people who wants to dual boot and that is totally last century. Boot Linux and run Windows in a VM.
It is not to do with dual boot, it is to do with booting anything at all. This is a motherboard chip feature. Booting from a live CD will be impossible, and even if you wipe your HD, trying to install anything else will be impossible - if Secure Boot is enabled.
You can disable Secure Boot (FTTB, but I suspect MS will hope to clobber even that in the not too distant future), and I will myself. But it will deter people from trying out Linux tentatively and perhaps liking it. That's how I started, and MS hate people doing that.
Useless EFI (Score:0)
I don't see much of a problem - it only affects people who wants to dual boot and that is totally last century. Boot Linux and run Windows in a VM.
Re:Useless EFI (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't see much of a problem - it only affects people who wants to dual boot and that is totally last century. Boot Linux and run Windows in a VM.
It is not to do with dual boot, it is to do with booting anything at all. This is a motherboard chip feature. Booting from a live CD will be impossible, and even if you wipe your HD, trying to install anything else will be impossible - if Secure Boot is enabled.
You can disable Secure Boot (FTTB, but I suspect MS will hope to clobber even that in the not too distant future), and I will myself. But it will deter people from trying out Linux tentatively and perhaps liking it. That's how I started, and MS hate people doing that.