this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

That's not fair! I care! A lot!

Just had to buy a new laptop for new place of employment. It took real time, effort, and care, but I've finally found a recent laptop matching my hardware requirements and sense of aesthetics at a reasonable price, without that hideous copilot button :)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

quite annoyed that the Snapdragon laptops are bootlocked cos they'd make great Linux boxes

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

How are they bootlocked? Just need the right iso. I have done it, because I didn't know they came with Linux for this particular client and they put windows on it, had to get a specific iso to reinstall when they borked it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh really? I thought MS had demanded boot locking for the ARM laptops.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not 100% sure, I just know I did it once. Let me see if I can get the iso I used for Linux.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

yeah looks like I'm thankfully wrong!

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