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Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings
3 points by JTechno 2472 days ago
I've recently installed Windows 10 in my laptop where I already had Linux installed.

After restoring the boot order and booting Windows I installed Intel Driver & Support Assistant to check for outdated drivers, it found one for the integrated graphics card and after installing it I could no longer boot Linux.

To my surprise it had enabled Secure Boot and deleted the Linux EFI entry without asking.

Do you think this is acceptable?

2 comments

No, but we've entered an era where it's normal for users to have little/no control over their own machines.
That's really sad imo. I wonder how feasible it is to port open source firmware platforms to new boards. Would be a very fascinating task, but also very difficult as I imagine most hardware is undocumented, at least to the general populace.
that's why i didnt use windows 10, i stickly stay on windows 7 and waiting to end of services to move into a linux, not only about the control rule also about the update which is mostly nowadays is make my pc run slower than before