Comment by cjs_ac
15 days ago
For PC-class devices, there's an established market segment of buyers who won't buy anything that won't run a Linux or BSD OS. For smartphones and tablets, that segment is yet to form, because projects like postmarketOS are yet to deliver something that's suitable for use as a 'daily driver'. So PC manufacturers have commercial incentives to push back against Microsoft, but smartphone manufacturers have no incentive to push back against Google.
Also, current UEFI implementations allow for disabling Secure Boot. If that changes, we can discuss that when it happens, because I'm not terribly interested in getting all het up about imaginary things.
Doesn't seem all that imaginary to me. Having a bit of foresight — discussion before something bad happens — just seems like good sense rather than saying it's imaginary. We don't need a crystal ball to discuss possible scenarios and prepare options
First roll out of Secure Boot to consumers locked them out of installing Linux on their PCs. It's not imaginary, it's what actually happened.