HP works, I have 5 HP machines at this time, all running Debian.
"secure boot" does not exist on any of them.
I do Not use UEFI, only Legacy Boot.
Never figured it out or saw an urgent need to use it.
BIOS/UEFI menus are all different, even on similar models and makes.
there are a number of articles on UEFI and boot loaders in the Debian Wiki.
On 6/7/19 7:46 PM, tuulen wrote:
Hi,
I am an ordinary GUI and mouse computer user, not a command line
user. But I want to get away from both Apple and Microsoft. I spent
a lot of time looking into Linux, Unix, BSD, and eventually I
discovered Debian. And because I like to know the details of what I
am doing I also discovered that I just naturally like Debian, too, as
Debian is built upon explanations, fine with me!
I was in the process of partitioning my hard drive to install Debian
when I encountered a couple of UEFI complications. My HP Laptop with
Windows 10 does not offer a way to disable the "secure boot" feature
of UEFI, so that makes Debian off limits. Then I went to the HP
website but almost all of the available HP desktops and laptops have
Windows 10, with presumably the same useless UEFI that I now have, and
I did not see any Linux-compatible HP computers as available. I am
aware that there are other computer makers and manufacturers but I am
wondering what computers the Debian community prefers. Fortunately my
needs are small bandwidth-wise, no gaming, no movies, nothing bigger
than an occasional news clip or YouTube clip, so I do not need a big,
powerful computer. I can continue to use Apple and Microsoft
computers for ordinary day-to-day uses but there are some uses, like
banking and financial matters including credit card use, etc., for
which I would very much appreciate a more secure computer and for
different reasons I have come to distrust both Apple and Microsoft.
OK, so there is a steep learning curve to using Debian, but I think I
can handle learning how to do what I need to do. Any computer model
suggestions?
Thanks! Best regards, Doug
