newcivs Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Windows 8 has a new BIOS "UEFI that developed by Intel", is pretty you can edit it with a GUI, but the UEFI has a new utility "exploter by microsoft" is "secure boot" the secure boot bans uncertfied software and Operating Systems "microsoft signs software" that means that GNU/Linux is blocked!therfore i have a question: Where is possible buy a powerful desktop computer "Intel I7 proccesor, Nvidia Geforce GPU" with GNU/Linux "at least with windows 7, windows 7 has the ancient hard but unlocked BIOS"is it possible???and if it is possible, where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki1950 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Do a goggle search UEFI secure boot can be turned off otherwise it would be not legal to sell in the EU as several countries actually use Linux on their gov dept desktops Enjoy the Choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romulus Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 lol...You don't need another box just because MS is being a @#$%.You have to turn off secure boot and enable legacy boot options plus legacy boot devices which are on your box. How to do this exactly depends on what BIOS version/type you are running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niektb Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Do not forget disabling fast boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight32 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 There are quite a few vendors of computers with installed Linux, to answer your question: http://linuxpreloaded.com/Not that you actually need to - but yes, it's possible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barul Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 A good thing to do before buying any computers if it will be running Linux is to do "computer model + linux" in google. Usually you can already have a pretty good feedback from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki1950 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 A good thing to do before buying any computers if it will be running Linux is to do "computer model + linux" in google. Usually you can already have a pretty good feedback from it.You really only have to do this for Lap-Tops as they usually have the most custom hardware for which the Linux drivers get spotty as the manufacturer doesn't provide any data to the kernel wizards.The main-board makers have been much more forthcoming in the last couple of years,most of them use Linux in the design stage they don't like paying the M$ tax any more then we do Enjoy the Choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thamlett Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 There are two ways I know of to disable the SecureBoot.One is in Windows, hidden deep in the settings.The other is in the bios, probably under advanced features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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