Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
I tried to do a dual boot on my bf’s new laptop, he was li-curious, it ended up being such a hassle he just switched entirely. He prefers the Mac like interface on Wayland.
Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
This is false information.
I have never seen this nor can I find any examples of this online. Any examples?
I tried to do a dual boot on my bf’s new laptop, he was li-curious, it ended up being such a hassle he just switched entirely. He prefers the Mac like interface on Wayland.
Wayland isn’t the desktop environment (window compositor). That’s probably Gnome, as it’s very mac like.
I thought that was illegal.
Do you happen to know any specific hardware that does so? I haven’t heard of that and I’m genuinely curious.
Maybe Windows ARM devices?
You can run Linux on those, except for the surface pro X which never got support