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Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)

AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

For phones Google gets to decide, as an os maker. For PCs, there are multiple OSses so hardware manufacturers get to decide.

I personally don’t see AMD or Intel doing that anytime soon, and if they do, at least Arm and Risc-V are making some good progress in the desktop space

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jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Microsoft tried to get things going that way with “s”, but it didn’t take

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- ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I bought my wife a cheap Lenovo laptop when she needed something that supported the “Lockdown” browser (no Linux support). Didn’t realize when I bought it what “S” meant (and I’ve been an IT guy for over 20 years). Got it home and realized what was up, it couldn’t even run that browser because it had to be the preconfigured browser from her school and not one from the MS store. An evening of fiddling and a $3 grey market key and she was back onto a normal Windows install.
  
  On the plus side the laptop was only like $299 or $399 and really isn’t too bad on the hardware side.
  
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