Myths and facts
Your laptop can almost certainly run Linux and there’s only a few pitfalls to watch out for. Let us explain…
Sales of desktop PCs have been declining for years. It’s wrong to say our venerable ATX cases will go the way of the dodo anytime soon, but it’s foolish to not acknowledge that more and more of our computing is done on laptops and mobile devices. As a reader of this fine periodical, then, you’ll feel it’s your duty to install Linux on said devices. And it would be our pleasure to show you how. You may have heard horror stories of Linux breaking or maiming laptops, or the relationships of those using them. Some of them might be true but plenty are fake news, at least nowadays.
Back when Secure Boot was introduced, for example, many saw it as a conspiracy by Microsoft to establish further dominance over users’ hardware. This was a mostly specious concern. We haven’t encountered a device where this feature can’t be disabled and haven’t heard readers complain about it for some time. And plenty of distros make use of a shim signed by Microsoft, to get on just fine with Secure Boot.