(05-24-2016, 11:05 PM)solarius Wrote: ...nothing keeps me from changing it eventually.
You might be surprised. Go into your BIOS and check to see if you can disable UEFI and/or "Secure Boot". If you can't, there IS something keeping you from changing it - ever.
"Secure Boot" is a facet of the old "Trusted Computing Platform" (TCP) concept that was being pushed hard a few years ago. It sounds like it means you can trust your own computer, but what it really means is that THEY can trust YOU to compute in THEIR approved ways. The eventual goal was to prevent you distributing, or even opening again yourself, documents that YOU created but THEY disapproved of, via certificate servers - if they revoked the cert for it, no one, anywhere, not even the creator, could ever open it again other than THEM, who controlled the certificates.
With the release of Win8, MS required enabling UEFI and Secure Boot on with all systems that shipped with Win8 installed. With Win10, they have shifted the responsibility (and blame) to the manufacturers, saying that it was at OEM discretion whether to lock it or not.
Check yours, and see where it stands. I would also check any newly purchased computers before leaving the store with them. If they won't let you, then you don't need the computer bad enough, and neither do they need your business bad enough.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’