What a relief. I thought Microsoft was going to elminate Secure Boot Bypass options in official firmware which would brick old computers.
I absolutely despise the era where both Secure and Non-Secure modes are present in firmware. It means that older computers WILL NOT BOOT TO USB UNLESS SECURE BOOT IS TURNED OFF. I spent countless hours making custom boot disks, screwing around with firmware settings.
Sometimes you have to turn Secure Boot off to boot the USB, then turn it off again to recognize the installed OS, all kinds of crap. Some computers won't run Windows 11 at all because it tries to force Secure Boot.
Windows really is such garbage compared to Mac OS. With that computer if you wipe the drive it just detects your wifi, downloads the OS, and installs it. No screwing around with firmware settings. Windows? If it's an old computer (4 years old or older) you could be screwing around with it for hours just to install an OS.
I also had to disable Secure Boot for the PCI slot to work on a computer because of an Intel BIOS bug. Intel does not QA anything properly in firmware. I know, I used to work for them and we constantly found firmware bugs that made it into Production.
I absolutely despise the era where both Secure and Non-Secure modes are present in firmware. It means that older computers WILL NOT BOOT TO USB UNLESS SECURE BOOT IS TURNED OFF. I spent countless hours making custom boot disks, screwing around with firmware settings.
Sometimes you have to turn Secure Boot off to boot the USB, then turn it off again to recognize the installed OS, all kinds of crap. Some computers won't run Windows 11 at all because it tries to force Secure Boot.
Windows really is such garbage compared to Mac OS. With that computer if you wipe the drive it just detects your wifi, downloads the OS, and installs it. No screwing around with firmware settings. Windows? If it's an old computer (4 years old or older) you could be screwing around with it for hours just to install an OS.
I also had to disable Secure Boot for the PCI slot to work on a computer because of an Intel BIOS bug. Intel does not QA anything properly in firmware. I know, I used to work for them and we constantly found firmware bugs that made it into Production.
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