Archived Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem (phoronix.com)
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Archived Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem (phoronix.com)
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[–] rndmvar 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Why the fuck is an OS writing to the BIOS? When did that become a 'good' idea or acceptable?
[–] RubberHammer 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Never, and it's not. This hints of a serious security issue and that the OS may be compromised.
[–] Thursday777 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Should your BIOS be corrupted, you may need to replace your motherboard if there is not a removable flash chip.
Jesus....
[–] 11407133? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yeah, that's never the desired outcome of installing an OS.
[–] doomsdrzej 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
I hope the Linux advocates will understand why those of us who have lived and breathed Windows since 3.0 will be reluctant to give Linux a shot after this. I tried and used 17.10 on my MSI and thank God that it didn't manage my laptop. To say the least, I will never give it a chance to.
[–] 11408455? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It is colliding with the Lenovo BIOS rootkit I assume.
[–] piratse 4 points -2 points 2 points (+2|-4) ago
"Linux is the best, it's not overly fractured and rushed to market!! Nothing is better than free open source!!!"
[–] memememema 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Yes its better to have all your information harvested and have all of your personal information sold to the NSA.Thanks microsoft and apple.
[–] piratse 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
I use Linux, I'm making fun of assholes who can't admit to its flaws. Also, your hardware is spying on you already. So it's lose lose.
[–] Ghetto_Shitlord ago
That's just one issue, and really a small one.
Peripheral support is still pretty bad. On win systems, 99% of what you plugin just works.
No unified app store. This is how android succeeded. Sure, there are many flavors, but the important thing, software, runs reliably on all of them.
Not easy to buy. Non techies won't install an os, and walking into a store, or even going online is difficult.
Fragmentation. There are hundreds of distros, madness.
I could go on.
[–] gabara 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
@ExpertShitposter, don't install Linux or it will corrupt your BIOS!!!!
[–] PhillyNekim 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Ubuntu is the McDonald's happy meal of linuxs. Way better than fedora was though.
[–] ExpertShitposter 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
@Kleyno save us!