Warning: Microsoft Doesn't Want You To Install Linux On Its 'Signature PCs' | Linux Today

Warning: Microsoft Doesn’t Want You To Install Linux On Its ‘Signature PCs’

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Adarsh Verma
Sep 21, 2016

Microsoft hates it when its customers wish to install Linux or other operating systems on its PCs. A Redditor has expressed concern over his inability to install Linux on a Yoga 900 ISK2 Ultrabook. Trying to justify this, Lenovo has said that Yoga 900 runs a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed and it’s locked per our agreement with Microsoft.

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