Windows 8.1 & Ubuntu

[Allan]

Your statement is inaccurate; Microsoft did no such thing.

EFI was created by Intel, not Microsoft.
If you're talking about recent adoption of UEFI, which Microsoft
mandates for Windows-enabled certification, well, there are technical
advantages for this, mainly security.

You can use a self-signed kernel and boot without a bootloader. You can
boot from 2TB drives. There's also secure boot, infamous for
complicating Linux installation.

However, it IS mandated by Microsoft that to achieve the same
certification, all x86 and amd64 devices MUST have the option to
enable/disable secure boot. So you can just turn it off.

***Keep in mind if your device is ARM, it's mandated that secure boot
CANNOT be disabled.***

Many distros (including Ubuntu) do have signed EFI keys that do work
with secure boot without disabling it, although this isn't foolproof.

On install, did you make sure to use "linux-signed-generic" or a
different signed kernel?

Please take the time to check your own hardware compatibility, because
not everything will be supported (there's a lot of hardware variety out
there).

For your UEFI issue, there is plenty of documentation readily available.
Here's a link with instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

Hope this email's complete enough.

Best.

On 14-04-18 08:28 PM, Tek Ang wrote:
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> Thanks for the feedback... your issue is what I am concerned about.
> 
> To be fair with Microsoft, I find Windows 8.1 is much better than the other Windows versions, however, typical Microsoft, they introduced the EFI... which technically monopolised the used of the computer solely for Windows.

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