Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

Thu Jan 31 15:38:32 UTC 2013

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:47:59AM -0500, William Weaver wrote:
> That's not entirely necessary. It depends on what distro you are
> installing. For example Fedora 18 now usees a shim so that it can be run
> with secure boot enabled using UEFI instad of legacy mode. It makes dual
> booting with Windows 8 alot easier, and you still get the speed increase.

What speed increase?

Besides you can just turn of secure boot and leave UEFI enabled and be
perfectly happy.  Don't even have to reinstall windows then.

> Also keep in mind that while not every linux distro supports UEFI booting,
> ex. Fuduntu, not every laptop supports legacy mode. Personally I was
> limited to only using UEFI compatable distros with my laptop because it
> doesn't have a legacy mode.

Wow a laptop that can't run 32bit windows at all.

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