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It did not seem specific to just Kaby Lake, but Lenovo does have multiple firmware teams, and even using different brand firmwares depending on product...

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Yea, Kaby Lake is so ancient.

While Kaby Lake was long after UEFI was introduced large vendors (eg Lenovo) were still shipping...

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It seems a lot of people in this comment thread thought Intel only made low end systems in prior years. Even good desktops back in 2008 could hold up...

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While systems older than 10 years generally don't have UEFI that isn't the only issue.

As was noted in the original article's comments systems...

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I think this only happens with VMware Workstation with Linux as the host OS. The easiest way that I have found to trigger the issue is to have 2-3 VMs...

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VMware Workstation is even worse than VirtualBox, if you use it much. It has a long standing bug even after several years, that it frequently causes the...

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Some of that has to do with getting the ticket routed to the right group, if it is misfiled initially, and often companies are running very ancient versions...

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If I remember correctly the issue was that the kernel let you delete UEFI variables, which should be safe, and some manufacturer's firmware was not smart...

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Fedora exists primarily as a source to feed into RHEL so you might not be far off. If Red Hat wants a major change to happen they do it first in Fedora...

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That's not even remotely true.

UEFI wasn't even partially rolled out until during Sandy Bridge (2011-2013).

A Sandy Bridge i7-2700K...

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Sonadow explicitly stated they did NOT mess with the boot media.

Boot up via a pristine ISO directly from Microsoft. Open a terminal window....

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Maybe you can for now, but building out the support to fully lock users out of their own systems for vendors to use will definitely be exploited.
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ymmv, but I definitely don't want my Linux system locked down like an Apple or Windows 11 with pluton system.

And that's also why Microsoft...

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I suspect Fedora has ulterior motives and is trying to frame this just as dropping support for legacy bios.

There are two semi-related items...

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Those pro users aren't using even workstation systems, but multirack systems like HPE Superdome's that can handle 10s of TB of ram, which Apple has never...