![]() When the PC starts, the firmware checks the signature of each piece of boot software, including firmware drivers (Option ROMs) and the operating system. Secure Boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to help make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer. It’s up to the OEM’s to enable the Secure boot on there machines and I strongly believe your interpreting it wrong like I did, I can’t see any motherboard manufacture enabling secure boot just because of Windows 8-10, for Linux you’ll always have the option to enable and disable it, the secure boot in the UEFI-BIOS ROM. Funnily enough I personally think that vanilla Ubuntu is worse than any currently supported version of Windows. I’ve been using Mint and Ubuntu at work for half a year and have to say that I like Mint much more than Windows. Sure, I will have to find alternatives for some software, but I will gain access to such great apps as OpenShot which blow free Windows apps out of the water. I’m to poor to (on top of ~120€ for Windows) afford MS Office or other non-open source software so there will be next to no difference after I switch to Linux Mint. ![]() After all the above is cleared I will use Win as my main gaming system and Mint as my main workstation. Right now I’m wiating for Win10 release and a final notice on which mobo manufacturer will force secure boot with Win10 as Linux Mint has no plans on getting a secure boot support. I plan on building a desktop to dual-boot with Linux Mint. Nothing I’ve tried work correctly with that. The main thing keeping me from even dual-booting is the fact that I’m on a laptop with shitty AMD card. It’s hard for me to understand why anyone tolerates this kind of apathy towards us users. I don’t have to mount my drives when I use the internet. But I keep my OS separate from my data anyway. As far as I know that never happens on Linux. The windows kingdom doesn’t change anything except for the desktop interface.Īnd the fear of RansomWare. And when you look at bugs They say, “this bug alert is for windows xp, vista, win7, win8, and win10.” So it’s obvious there’s very little improvement in the past 20 years. So I’m not a noobie on the internet and various OS’es.įrom my perspective, it’s really hard to understand why people Endure the pain of windows, defragging, cleaning out caches, all the trouble with firewalls, and maintaining 3 different antivirus programs, plus a malware scanner. I’ve done internet tech support, and commercial website tech support. So if you were really interested in using your favorite windows app on WINE, it is possible. ![]() You can copy all that stuff to your Wine install. And there’s programs that record the registry keys as they are being used. There’s a Dependency Walker that you start up, then start your windows program and it records all the dll’s etc that are used with that app. You can keep your data on your NTFS partition. Sometimes I have a win-os on v-box, and sometimes a separate partition but being careful to delete all the network modules. However there are some apps that are easier to setup in windows. I’ve been using Linux as my main workhorse since 2000. If you can’t use WINE (I find that doubtful) then use your favorite windoze for your favorite apps. What keeps you from switching to Linux on your computer system(s)? If you made the switch already, what was the most difficult thing to adjust to? Now that you know my reasons for not switching to Linux just yet, I'd like to hear yours. Eventually though, I'd like to run all but one system on Linux and not Windows. While it will take longer than a radical switch, it is the best I can do right now. What I plan to do is however use Linux on my laptop and get used to it this way. I'd like to make time for switching my main system but it is not there yet. The solution here is the same as for the second reason: keep one Windows system and use that for gaming and testing. While I'd certainly gain new readers writing exclusively about Linux topics, it is not something that I want to do. Since Ghacks is predominantly visited by people using Windows - last time I checked more than 93% - it would be foolish to abandon that operating system. It would not be too difficult to keep one Windows PC though and switch my main system to Linux I guess.
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