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Solve : How Microsfot has stopped Linux.?

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Yea. How Microsfot has stopped Linux.
This is not a new story. It is now three years old. Hardly anybody paid attention.
This is what has happened.
Moist new Desktops are pre built by the BIG companies. ASUS, Dell, Gateway, HP and IBM. And some others. All, come with Windows 8. The few exceptions prove the rules. FreeDOS? Really?

The secure boot feature is turned on. By default. Many Linux newbies can not test out Linux on a new Desktop until they find how to disable the Secure Boot feature. Again, the few exceptions prove the rule. This has all but killed the future of Linux, except for the real die hards. And even they have trouble.

Here is the old story:
Microsoft to stop Linux, older Windows, from running on Windows 8 PCs
ZDNet September 23, 2011

Before you contradict, go to any Linux forum and ask. If you want Linux, you have to build your own system or have it custom MADE. Orr use an old clunker.

EDIT: In third world continues Linux is doing very well.
Stop bringing this up, it's nonsense!

Secure Boot is not a Microsoft technology, it's part of the UEFI specification. Windows 8 is the first OS to support Secure Boot but that doesn't stop Linux supporting it in the future, it is not a scheme by Microsoft to stop people using Linux.

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This is not a new story. It is now three years old.
Therefore it is pretty much irrelevant - Windows 8 was released almost a year after the article was written, all the article does is talk about some rumors about Secure Boot and claim it to be the end of the world to get people to read it - At the point when the Article was written there were no PCs shipping with Windows 8 or Secure Boot.

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All, come with Windows 8. The few exceptions prove the rules. FreeDOS? Really?
I explained this to you in a different thread. FreeDOS is not expected to be used, it's purely to meet a restriction that states the machine must ship with an OS. And it's hardly surprising that most new machines ship with Windows 8 since it's the current version of Windows.

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The secure boot feature is turned on. By default
The one correct thing you stated.

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Many Linux newbies can not test out Linux on a new Desktop until they find how to disable the Secure Boot feature.
It's one setting in the BIOS which takes all of 30 seconds to change.

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This has all but killed the future of Linux, except for the real die hards. And even they have trouble.
No it hasn't.

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If you want Linux, you have to build your own system or have it custom made. Orr use an old clunker.
Complete nonsense. My desktop is self built yes but my laptop isn't - It's a brand new Lenovo THINKPAD T440s which came with Windows 8 preinstalled and therefore has Secure Boot and a UEFI - Guess what OS it runs, Answer: Fedora 20 Linux. All it took was literally a few seconds to disable Secure Boot, alternatively I could just switch the UEFI into legacy.

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In third world continues Linux is doing very well.
Yes, because Linux is totally only used by people who can't AFFORD Windows. I MEAN, there is noone who just prefers it as an OS out there. Here's a Interesting Read on this topic.


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