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After Protest, Lenovo Releases BIOS For Loading Linux on Yoga 900, IdeaPad 710S (liliputing.com)
Lenovo received a lot of heat in September when it said the Yoga 900 and Yoga 900S hybrids would only support Windows, and not Linux. The company has now changed its stance, though there is still a catch. An anonymous reader shares a Lilputing article: But now you can install Linux, because Lenovo has released new BIOS options for those laptops. There's a bit of a catch though. Lenovo's new BIOS has an AHCI option that lets you install Linux... but if you're using the new BIOS, then Windows is not officially supported. In fact, Lenovo says it's not officially supporting the new BIOS either... if you want to install it, you're pretty much on your own if you run into any problems. While Lenovo is presenting this as an either/or solution for choosing whether you want to run Windows or Linux. But some users have discovered that it is possible to set up dual-boot system using the new BIOS, allowing you to choose between Windows and Linux when your computer boots.
Lenovo used Superfish. Serious buyers stay away from Lenovo after that one. Idiots OTOH still sponsor Lenovo and bitch about the evil corp not supporting Linux.
This is the sort of thing that happens when a company that had malware and rootkits on it's BIOS reported multiple times don't get enough of a financial backlash to get a hint.
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Protip guys: DON'T BUY STUFF FROM LENOVO.
Just don't buy. It's simple. Lenovo is not an option, period.
They couldn't care less about clients protests, as long as they keep selling their crap filled laptops.
If you buy stuff from them, you'll get what you deserve.
There have been enough warnings already. This here is a drop in the bucket.
If your OS of choice was any flavor of Windows since Vista, then you'd have the spyware installed at every boot. It's injected from BIOS/UEFI into Windows at every boot.