/g/ - what do you think about libreboot? is liberating a hardware that was never intended to be worth it? - Technology

Anonymous

what do you think about libreb(...) 03/30/26(Mon)07:45:00 No.108485140

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what do you think about libreboot? is liberating a hardware that was never intended to be worth it? Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)07:45:00 No.108485140 Archived

shitty docs dont really convince me of installing it, and it seems like a huge risk anyway, i really want to get this on my main machine, but my best bet is installing it on my ThinkPad that i dont really care about

Anonymous
03/30/26(Mon)08:23:54 No.108485319

Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)08:23:54 No.108485319

>>108485140
I think if you can get IntelME disabled or Coreboot it's enough and you are officially considered a bull and not rather than a cuck.

But moving forward I think RISC-V is going to eventually be fast enough that it will be the superior choice to any hacky cope firmware.

Anonymous
03/30/26(Mon)08:48:55 No.108485412

Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)08:48:55 No.108485412

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>>108485140
Listen, I think you don't understand, so I'll explain this in simple terms.

There's no daily general libreboot on /g/.
If LibreBoot replaced the UEFI BIOS on a global scale and supported every motherboard and laptop, and if the GUI was amazing and let you unlock locked CPU cores, everyone here would install that mod.
This means that only a small community performs this modification.
Yes, I know some people here replace their ThinkPad's BIOS with Libreboot and are proud of it.
However, you lose access to your beautiful UEFI BIOS GUI, which is replaced by the Tianocore/SeaBIOS boot manager.

After doing all of this installation, you can only access the boot menu.

Anonymous
03/30/26(Mon)09:05:47 No.108485481

Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)09:05:47 No.108485481

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Anonymous
03/30/26(Mon)10:13:20 No.108485800

Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)10:13:20 No.108485800

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>>108485140
Libreboot doesn't "liberate" anything. Libreboot, Canoeboot, Coreboot, UEFI, BIOS etc. all have proprietary blobs and code. Only GNU Boot is libre and Free Software without any non-free or proprietary code.

Anonymous
03/30/26(Mon)14:10:22 No.108487256

Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)14:10:22 No.108487256

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>>108485140
>libreboot
It's just castrated Coreboot. Literally trannyware.

Anonymous
03/30/26(Mon)14:56:32 No.108487577

Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)14:56:32 No.108487577

>>108487256
GNU Boot is only Free Software one without proprietary code and also not your CoreTroon stfu.