[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]GTFO, Linux fanboys... you don't NEED new hardware. You can play around with your toys on a Core 2 Duo. In fact, 11.04 boots on a Core 2 Duo faster than it does than on my Core i7, and it doesn't support Turbo Boost and glitches with my GPU even though the proprietary drivers are there.I think that Linux users are tech-savvy enough to NOT buy prebuilt PCs, and on non-prebuilt there will be an option to disable this.Keep protesting. I'll laugh just like I laughed when Linux users "demanded" Steam. They don't really need any of it, they just want to pretend that someone actually gives a $h!t about them.[/citation]
I know this is trollbait and all, but I just want everyone else reading this comment thread to know the reason the FSF is protesting this is that it basically does what Apple does with mac hardware, where the bios doesn't allow for any OS except OSX (in this case, windows) to boot, and since M$ is pushing EUFI in Windows 8, and most hardware manufacturers are swapping to it, all it takes is a little illicit pocket change from M$ to get asus msi etc to just take the secure boot toggle out of their BIOSes on preinstalled windows boxes.
Every linux user now would not care the difference, we could flash the bios and do whatever we wanted, and we wouldn't get a system with Windows preinstalled. But for every Joe Shmoe computer user, this basically removes the ability to OS switch completely. And when it comes to laptops, without a unified component standard like ATX is for desktop we cant custom build laptops so we have to go through 3rd party distributors that M$ can buy out to preinstall windows 8 with secure boot disasbled and it will be a pain to reflash the bios.