On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:29:14PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > I upgraded my computer a few days ago and I had the same concern as you. > My new motherboard is an ASUS M5A97 R2.0(Windows 8 Ready). I didn't have > to change anything in the BIOS and I was able to boot Kubuntu 12.04. On > my second drive I have Windows 7, this took a little more work to get > running since Windows had to detect all the hardware again, but I have > both operating system working and I didn't need to disable anything in > the BIOS in regards to UEFI. > > However, I don't know if installing Windows 8 would change any of this, > but I have absolutely no intention of finding out. Windows 7 is the last > Microsoft OS that I intend to use on my home computer. With Valve Steam > currently in testing on Linux, I intend to stop using Windows entirely > in 2013.
I've heard that Microsoft has announced that all Window 8 systems on ARM processors will be completely locked down. This doesn't appear to be the case with nonARM systems, but tthere;s always a possibility that the hardware manufacturers don'w handle thsi properly. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
