Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings

#1

Post by JTechno » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 11:12 AM UTC

I've recently installed Windows 10 in my laptop where I already had Linux installed.

After restoring the boot order and booting Windows I installed Intel Driver & Support Assistant to check for outdated drivers, it found one for the integrated graphics card and after installing it I could no longer boot Linux.

To my surprise it had enabled Secure Boot and deleted the Linux EFI entry without asking.

Do you think this is acceptable?

Re: Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings

#2

Post by therealidiot » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

No, but we've entered an era where it's normal for users to have little/no control over their own machines.

Re: Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings

#3

Post by non-entity » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

therealidiot wrote: post #2

No, but we've entered an era where it's normal for users to have little/no control over their own machines.

That's really sad imo. I wonder how feasible it is to port open source firmware platforms to new boards. Would be a very fascinating task, but also very difficult as I imagine most hardware is undocumented, at least to the general populace.

Re: Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings

#4

Post by mokurai88 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 4:09 AM UTC

that's why i didnt use windows 10, i stickly stay on windows 7 and waiting to end of services to move into a linux, not only about the control rule also about the update which is mostly nowadays is make my pc run slower than before