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Re: Best Desktop Computer for Linux Mint

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Best Desktop Computer for Linux Mint
Date 2021-03-24 10:04 +0100
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On 23/03/2021 18:19, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:07:10 -0400, David Brown
> <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>> UEFI was created for one purpose, and one purpose only - it was invented
>> by Microsoft in order to make life difficult for anyone who wanted to
>> put something other than Windows on a computer.  Everything else is just
>> an excuse with no real benefit to anyone.
> 
> That's overlooking another key advantage of uefi. It is basically a mini
> os that
> the user has no control over that allows various government agencies to
> install
> root kits that the user's os can not detect.
> 

That is not something I see as particularly realistic.  (There are other
ways to do that better, such as the Intel Management Engine.)

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          Re: Best Desktop Computer for Linux Mint "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-03-23 13:19 -0400
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