On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:43:40AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 07:46:40PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Call me paranoid but I am noticing big companies like Microsoft making > > it very difficult to buy a computer or laptop without Windows > > installed. > > > > Are you experiencing the same difficulty and what do you do when you > > need to buy a new machine? > > I generally go through a laborious, and somewhat painful > process to install my own choice of OS.
I heard that M$ is forcing the laptop makers to enable TPM, and prevent it from being disabled, else they aren't allowed to install windows. Having a choice of OS to install is great, but doesn't TPM mean that GNU/Linux can't be installed because TPM won't recognize its signature, if it is signed in the first place? So, getting a machine without windows on it is all well and good, but what about the issue of disabling TPM, or is that not an issue? Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
