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Ubuntu 17.10 pulled: Linux OS knackers laptop BIOSes, Intel kernel driver fingered

Maventi

Re: Accidental Aardvark

> At least Windows never killed my BIOS...

Not your machine perhaps, but there have been plenty of reports of Windows also doing it in recent years.

That said, I don't think this is a really either Windows or Linux issue. I think the blame rests squarely with bloated UEFI design and in particular lazy implementations by many hardware manufacturers. It's plain that the design can't be very robust if software bugs can so easily upset the boot firmware.

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