Comment by msla
8 hours ago
With Windows, you get what you pay for.
In this case, that's an OS controlled by an unaccountable company that can take application software away from you.
Related: If you're the customer, you're the product.
8 hours ago
With Windows, you get what you pay for.
In this case, that's an OS controlled by an unaccountable company that can take application software away from you.
Related: If you're the customer, you're the product.
Hmmm, so basically Google but you also pay for it?
ChromeOS and Android are definitely comparable.
Windows actually isn't very cheap.
agree, because "free" can be neither "cheap" nor "expensive"
It's not free at all. If you buy Windows through the official channels it's quite expensive. If you buy it on the grey market, it's dirt cheap, though.
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I see what you did there.
you can always either disable secureboot and driver signature verification, or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that...
Ah, yes, the [insert super inconvenient and complex thing to do that most people don’t know, want or should do] will solve it! And when that fails, surely the user can just write their own OS, right? Bunch of skill-issued complainers we the users are.
Well, the hope was always that those of us inconvenienced by M$ would all collectively contribute to making Linux distros more convenient for everyone. But we can't ever seem to get inconvenienced enough to actually sufficiently mobilize and/or coordinate such an effort.
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I mean, the super-easy option would be to just use BitLocker for FDE. No hassles, just works. But I fugured since everyone here on HN hates MS I wouldn't even bring that up. Don't trust MS? Enroll yourown keys
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> or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that...
I'll tell Grandma that's what she needs to do.
Make sure that she setup a PKI infrastructure to manage certificate revocation as well, wouldn't want a bad grandson to mess with it.
Why would you put Grandma on VeriCrypt in the first place? It's the more 'difficult' option for FDE.
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your grandma is probably fine with BitLocker....
And they say Linux is inconvenient because you have to open the terminal every once in a while.