I got a DELL laptop
which started getting problematic and manifesting "a mind of its
own" right on arrival (remove the battery, WiFi card and let it sit for more than 24 hours for it to start trying to call home by itself). It came with what DELL calls "secure
BIOS" (you don't have access to) and had Windows preinstalled. I
didn't care much about it because I was booting it with a Debian Live
DVD, but later I needed access to its internal NVMe SSD, but DELL
doesn't let you access it if you don't boot using their cr@ppy BIOS into the installed Windows base!
To me this is
preposterous. It is like selling someone a car and expecting the
buyer to only get gas from your "secure, authorized gas
stations" within a prescribed area!
Lately I have been
mostly coding in Java and I always like to test my code on a resident
OS not a virtual machine. I would stress test using Windows Subsystem
for Linux just fine. I like the java on Linux environment.
Would HP let you
access their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within Linux?
How do you deal
with such "secure BIOS" nonsense?
lbrtchx