"It's different for pretty much every laptop vendor, and often within different ranges from the same vendor."
Not my experience. Maybe I don't see the subtle differences any more. Or I've just been lucky.
"there's a separate interface for choosing a one-off boot device"
Only on not too old PCs but you're right it really makes things easier. It's still not the pinnacle of user friendliness though.
"..., and entirely untrue with UEFI."
Sorry if I missed one of your previous blog but... what are you referring to here? I've installed Linux on a number of (non-secure) EFI laptops already and it was not any different from any pre-EFI laptop. What did I miss?
(In fact, for most of these laptops it was actually hard to notice they were using EFI at all)
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Re: Approach eases social engineering attacks
Date: 2012-10-21 09:41 pm (UTC)Not my experience. Maybe I don't see the subtle differences any more. Or I've just been lucky.
"there's a separate interface for choosing a one-off boot device"
Only on not too old PCs but you're right it really makes things easier. It's still not the pinnacle of user friendliness though.
"..., and entirely untrue with UEFI."
Sorry if I missed one of your previous blog but... what are you referring to here? I've installed Linux on a number of (non-secure) EFI laptops already and it was not any different from any pre-EFI laptop. What did I miss?
(In fact, for most of these laptops it was actually hard to notice they were using EFI at all)