New Lenovo AMD Laptops With Pluton Co-Processor Reportedly Only Boot Windows By Default

[Rabiator]

This !
I am very curious how SteamOS would perform on a Ryzen 9 6980HX.
Give me a nice miniPC chassis and I'd have my Xbox-killer. But I realize that I am probably the only one who'd buy that.

I'm curious about the Rembrandt iGPU, because Rembrandt for desktop might be released towards the end of the year. A "performance preview" would be nice, as a hint if I should go for a serious desktop GPU or wait for desktop Rembrandt. I want something where I can switch out components (CPU, RAM, maybe add a dGPU later), no laptop-style board where stuff is soldered in.
Once desktop Rembrandt is out, you should be able to get a small form factor mainboard with socket AM5. If you are comfortable with building your own PC, there are already enough small form factor cases to stuff it in.

[CochainComplex]

what a surprise. Waiting for the "EEE is not part of M$ modern culture anymore - MS loves Linux" folks. Can someone of you explain it to me - my small opensource head doesn'T understand it.

[wagner17]

what a surprise. Waiting for the "EEE is not part of M$ modern culture anymore - MS loves Linux" folks. Can someone of you explain it to me - my small opensource head doesn'T understand it.

According to this, https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/m...d-core_PCs.pdf, you can enable secure boot if you buy the model with Windows preinstall. I imagine when Lenovo finishes Linux hardware enablement for this model the Linux SKU will not need this.

[CochainComplex]

According to this, https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/m...d-core_PCs.pdf, you can enable secure boot if you buy the model with Windows preinstall. I imagine when Lenovo finishes Linux hardware enablement for this model the Linux SKU will not need this.

Ok thx. Now I can take of the tin hat ...at least for a while.

[loganj]

i wonder if those from asus 6800h(S) have the same problem

[estan]

You can enable trust of the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI Certificate through a firmware setting and it will work.

Lenovo claims they are forced by Microsoft to have trust of this certificate disabled by default: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/m...d-core_PCs.pdf

Starting in 2022 for Secured-core PCs it is a Microsoft requirement for the 3rd Party
Certificate to be disabled by default. This means that for any of these Lenovo
platforms shipped with Windows preinstalled an extra step is needed to allow Linux to
boot with secure boot enabled. [...]

[_ReD_]

Despicable. The antitrust should have something to say.

[leo_sk]

That's like saying HTTPS is useless because the user can "trust" invalid certificates.

That's how chain of trust works. We don't know anything better, there has to be some kind of designated authority.

And it was unilaterally decided it would be microsoft. Since it has nothing to gain by adopting some anti-consumer practices. /S

Ideally it should have been a consortium of major OS vendors, OEMs and manufacturers who are involved in the entire chain.

Idk why it has never been litigated. Hope EU intervenes and distributes microsoft's newfound powers equitably

[_ReD_]

Hopefully this will be bucket of cold water on Linus head which is becoming dumber and dumber with age.

Gratuitous, baseless accusation. Don't you have anything better to do than hating publicly on other people who's done nothing to you?

[robimarko]

Despicable. The antitrust should have something to say.

Sounds like a slam dunk for EU.