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cesarb on Oct 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I am seriously considering going back to desktop c...

> Yet, I can still install and run whatever operating system and software I want on my laptop _and_ desktop, and I don't see any sign that that freedom will go away anytime soon.

We got awfully close though. Had Linux not been popular enough back when UEFI SecureBoot started being adopted, Microsoft would require x86 UEFI motherboards to not allow the user to install their own keys, like they did with ARM UEFI (https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-c...).

p_l on Oct 26, 2020 [–]

That's still, at best, Kremlinology (Redmondology?).

Microsoft has enough clients that require custom keying that for them, locking it down would be a financial downside without Linux being in the scope.

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