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Samsung laptop UEFI bricking bug is not Linux-specific

” bricked a Samsung laptop today. Unlike most of the reported cases of Samsung laptops refusing to boot, I never booted Linux on it – all experimentation was performed under Windows. It seems that the bug we’ve been seeing is simultaneously simpler in some ways and more complicated in others than we’d previously realised.” On a related note, the Linux Foundation’s UEFI secure boot system has been released.