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Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?

Yes. Very probably.

Of course, no security mechanism lasts indefinitely in the hands of a persistent hacker with physical access.

this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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