Why I hate Bill Gate

Why I hate Bill Gate

Windows is a shoddy operating system and resource hungry where my first computer with 4MB Video RAM could not handle Win 95.

 I used Debian 6 with over 6CDs could do a better job then. 

Later I migrated to Redhat since there were many books written from Redhat 7 onward.

Then of course, Caldera, Debian and Mandriva and still later Knoppix took me to New Heights in Linux.

About Mr. Bill Gate I have nothing personal to say and his divorce probably is good for both. 

Him getting venereal disease from a Russian tart is exposed by leaked Epstein files.

Hanging onto a breaking relationship is nerve racking to any human being.

I hope both do some productive work on their own volition.

My grouse with him is his ploy with manufacturers to insinuate OEM hardware with  BOGUS UEFI-MEFI (it was named Unified Framework but I used M for Microsoft here for his personal use) or framework interface was an atrocious business plan to stifle Linux users.

I do not have to take permission from Bill Gate to use open source Linux in my laptop initially installed with Microsoft Windows.

It does not let me use legacy BIOS and still have a UEFI script hidden in the memory or within the hardware architecture of the OEM portion.

Simple method to overcome this ploy is to stick a SD of at least 32 GB and install the boot loader there.

UEFI won't let you use legacy GRUB to boot multiple Linux distributions.

I  now use Linux ESP partition to bypass UEFI blocking mechanism.

If OEM software says no boot medium even after having installed a Linux distribution, this is what you have to do.

1. Download BSD TRUE OS DVD, Debian DVD 1 and Gnome Partition (GPT) iso CD.

2. Install TRUE OS and it virtually takes over the Disk Drive of your laptop.

3. Unfortunately it does not let you boot any other distribution.

4. Boot GPT partition disk.
Delete the tank partition of BSD leaving only the ESP partition which the TRUE OS had created. 

Then.partition the disk.with EXT4 or Btrfs partitions.

5. Mount Debian DVD and install.

You.have the option of using the unused part of the hard disk but remember to.mount ESP partition (but do not format the  ESP lest  BOOT details are erased).

There is a very simple solution, if the Microsoft Media is not bootable.

1. Buy  SATA disk (mounted on a external) and attach it to the Laptop.

One can boot Linux from the external disk.
One terabyte is cheap now.
 

I sometime go to  Singapore and do my usual shopping and see offers for about a week and by all the stuff one third the price in Ceylon.
 

Now Coronavirus has put a stop to it.

Coming back to the external SATA disk one has to partition it, the way one likes it to be.

Ultimately install a Linux distribution to boot from while attached to the laptop.

The GRUB boot loader will detect the distributions unbootable from the laptop and boot them via the external disk.

One can use a SD card or USB but installing  a distribution in a tightly packed USB is slow and may break down in the middle  of the installation.

That problem one does not encounter with a one terabyte external disk.

I have used my innovative methods to erase OEM blocking ploy with BSD and then to install Debian, thereafter.

Unfortunately even Ubuntu gives up and succumb to UEFI ploy and it destroyed my booting options.

Only BSD does erase everything and install ESP partition.

Not even Debian can handle it.