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[–] kadup@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.

[–] azur@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Do you happen to know any specific hardware that does so? I haven't heard of that and I'm genuinely curious.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

You can run Linux on those, except for the surface pro X which never got support

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