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Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
I have never seen this nor can I find any examples of this online. Any examples?
I thought that was illegal.
Do you happen to know any specific hardware that does so? I haven't heard of that and I'm genuinely curious.
Maybe Windows ARM devices?
You can run Linux on those, except for the surface pro X which never got support
This is false information.
I tried to do a dual boot on my bf's new laptop, he was li-curious, it ended up being such a hassle he just switched entirely. He prefers the Mac like interface on Wayland.
Wayland isn't the desktop environment (window compositor). That's probably Gnome, as it's very mac like.