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		glitchc on June 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surface Laptop review: Microsoft's best MacBook Ai... If it's anything like the previous Surface machines, the BIOS will not have the option to turn Secure Boot off. That makes it much harder to get Linux on there, too hard for most people.

e12e on June 28, 2024 | [–]

You mean the other arm surface devices? Linux boots a and runs quite well on the x86 ones?

Looks like someone has Linux booting on the 11 already:

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/1476

blumomo on June 28, 2024 | [–]

“Great Linux machine” was my first thought, too. But if we can install our favorite OS, then this machine isn’t worth anything to me.

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