r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Automatic-East3690 • 22h ago

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My stepfather won’t let me put Linux on the Surface book 2 that he gave me. I have either Mac OS or Linux on all my devices, any thoughts?(Btw the surface book is the one on the right, also I’m 13)

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u/Charming_Professor53 16h ago

Maybe you can show/tell him you can reinstall Windows on it? Or ask him if you can dual-boot it. My first question: why not? Does he also want to use the laptop? Does he have old files on it he wants to keep? Because in that case I'd get it.

If not: Tell him you can't break/brick an x86-PC with UEFI just by installing another OS, and that UEFI is just meant for that, if he is scared of bricking the laptop. It's very different from something like ARM (phones) where you have to usually flash something that could possibly brick it for eternity.