On 2017-10-16 15:31, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Montag, 16. Oktober 2017 schrieb Steve Litt:
>> > > * UEFI allows for more security with secure boot. E.g. my thinkpad
>> > > *only* boots things that I have signed with my key.
>>
>> Does Devuan have a key? If not, I guess that's all we need to know
>> about what distro Tobias Hunger REALLY uses. I'm guessing he doesn't
>> have the brainpower to actually implement the distro-independent shim,
>> which sounds like an utter nightmare.
>
> LOL .. just a story picked from my desk ... last week ordered 2
> devices for testing, Getac T800:
> Customer: You are sure it boots Devuan and Freebsd?
> Vendor: Sure, half our customes use Linux!
> Today - devices arrived.
> Customer: This does only boot windows, dear vendor!
> Vendor: You cannot disable UEFI, but half our customes use Linux!
> Guess how this story will continue tomorrow ... praise the good deeds
> of the lords of UEFI as they sit in the heaven of marketing ...
>
> Nik

Perhaps those Linux installations are on VMs in Windows?

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