@valpackett@social.treehouse.systems At the time the secure boot was initially designed Windows was still going strong. They could get away with locking down all consumer PC hardware to run only Windows (or OS X for that other part), market-wise. Write off anyone not willing to run Windows as weird, suspicious, and potentially criminal. At least in the western PC market. Not sure how well it would go in China or India. Surprising amount of non-Apple consumer hardware was running Windows that was obtained with varying degrees of legitimacy back then
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RE: A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.
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RE: A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.
@valpackett@social.treehouse.systems @sleepyowl@chaos.social Originally it was intended to be locked down to only boot Windows, as were the first Windows Arm machines.
The reason you can run Linux on your PC at all today without hacks is previous rounds of pushback