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RE: Open Source Linux OS ...... The Future Of Computing
I jumped out the windows a few years ago...
...and landed on an apple.
Lately it's felt as if I jumped out of the kettle
into the fire..
I'm certainly considering the penquin..
but what hardware?
works with almost anything but a Mac lol.
They might still have one for mac though ... they used to ..
But Ubuntu and Open Suse have great hardware support.
will run on almost anything
I hate to fiddle under the hood.
I just want to operate it.
Mac was SUCH a dissapointment.
lol never really played with mac much..
Kubuntu is what I have now as they are on the cutting edge for compatibility with the various crypto software and is used by a lot of the coin miners.
what kind of machine?
did you wash a window or buy one with no OS?
oh it was fun putting it on this laptop. the new ones come with well here read this
PCs that come with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 include UEFI firmware instead of the traditional BIOS. By default, the machine’s UEFI firmware will only boot boot loaders signed by a key embedded in the UEFI firmware. This feature is known as “Secure Boot” or “Trusted Boot.” On traditional PCs without this security feature, a rootkit could install itself and become the boot loader. The computer’s BIOS would then load the rootkit at boot time, which would boot and load Windows, hiding itself from the operating system and embedding itself at a deep level.
Secure Boot blocks this — the computer will only boot trusted software, so malicious boot loaders won’t be able to infect the system.
On an Intel x86 PC (not ARM PCs), you have control over Secure Boot. You can choose to disable it or even add your own signing key. Organizations could use their own keys to ensure only approved Linux operating systems could boot, for example.
so you must disable the windows root kit that is called secure boot before you install linux.
so there is a little screwing around now that windows got into the bios of most computers. but it is easy to do as long as you know you have to do it lol
oooookay...
I think I understood one word out of ten.
like I said...I'm an operator..
not a mechanic.
well that's not really true..
I'm a mechanic if I HAVE to be.
but I don't want to.
lol ya been a geek for far to long I think ..
love playing under the hood ...
maybe if I got into Linux.
microsoft pisses me off
but not as bad as MacIntosh does.
I think that what I hate
I mean REALLY hate
about both of them is that THEY
have the audacity to think that THEY
can tell ME what to do.
Machines work for ME.
not the other way around.
http://www.cultofmac.com/405509/how-to-try-linux-without-risking-your-mac/
Cool you can put ubuntu on your mac fairly easy now they say without hurting your os
oh REALLY?
but I'm skeered.
I have google two factor authentications
(and other stuff)
on this computer that I sweated BLOOD and tears to get it to work.
$$$$$
depends on it being right.
I think I'll just go throw up for a while.