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The version of linux he used does not have the right drivers! simple.

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There seems to be a lot of hurt and over-excitement about this!

It's not even possible to re-install Windows on this machine let alone Linux.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/boar...

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And why would Microsoft be behind blocking Linux and windows installs, and reinstalls ...

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Microsoft: "You can't change the operating system on the computer you bought. But we can." (ref Win 10 forced installs)

I'm not convinced but your argument doesn't really pan out. Microsoft own Lenovo wrt what OS installs are made: by preventing any OS install except the factory one they can guarantee such devices will start at Win10 and only change if MS deem it. If they allowed reinstalls then users might be able to install Win7 or another OS.

You're missing the point. The mode of operation is defined in the BIOS, and these parts have been deliberately disabled. Whilst in theory it's true that Debian could potentially release a version in the future at present due to delibrate crippling in the BIOS (changed firmware to disable features) one can not even workaround this.

Acer used to do something somewhat similar on some Aspire models (disabling option to enable Vx at BIOS) so using VirtualBox was a no starting, but with some creativity and long winded efi vars mounting and fiddling you could get it working or break your system, not soldering though :)

I'd be interested to see how it pans out Lenovo community admins are worse than Acer community. At least with Dell I find a few engineer on Twitter and ping them..

Disabling the vx toggle in the bios bit me a couple times... it's just weird that a vendor would do that in the first place. Fortunately, at home I've always built my own, but laptops are so much more limited in terms of freedom.

afaik, there are no divers for this yet. anyways, the problem is not the drivers, its the fact that lenovo blocks BIOS options to allow discs to be accessible from non windows10 system.

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