Re: "secure" boot is *EVIL*
The consumer can simply buy something else.
They can, as long as there is something else to actually buy that isn't something else but also exactly the same.
If in a vast majority of PC buys, the user intends to use what's bundled and not tweak, then that may well become the norm, and from the norm, quickly all that's available as why carry alternate stock or offer custom configs that few ask for.
It is mostly how we ended up with Windows bundled with every new PC in the first place for the last few decades.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
