Your feelings on UEFI secure boot

[mag36]

Want to hear everyones thoughs on this new UEFI secure boot thing that windows 8 has been implimenting with most PC manufactures.

[anex]

Terrible idea. I mean look at how well the digital signatures worked with the x64. Pay Microsoft money or your program can't run off the x64 architecture. Which is fucking stupid. Gaben really wasn't kidding when he said that he foresaw OEMs leaving the PC market. Windows 8 and its secure boot bullshit can suck my dick. Unless a fix is invented to circumvent (which I have a feeling will be sometime soon) secure boot, it's not worth anyones time.

That is if I am reading the internet correctly.

[jwtemp]

Agreed. Proprietary boot measures do one thing - corner the market. They force you to adhere to a manufacturer's standard rather than an industry standard and this is almost always bad news for consumers.

The good news is Windows 8 is terrible, so it's mostly irrelevant at the moment. If Windows 9 can recover ala Vista --> 7 though, I pray they at least give us an option to bypass/disable UEFI boot out of the box. From what I'm reading though, Windows 'Blue' is going to be following the same atrocious design philosophy as Windows 8, which is 'every screen needs to be a touch screen!'

[ZERO]

I hope it dies but right now it is more like the customers going:
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[Steamer]

Old news. It is pure bs though. Lawsuits.

[-=Toy=-=Québec=-FR]

I think you can disable it in the BIOS settings right?