I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.
Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…
WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.
Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?
Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.
Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.
I mean if you dont have secureboot or TPM support some people would say crucial security features are broken.
TPM is only used for “prevent local tampering with device” but could be used for way more.
You technically don’t have to disable these for Linux to work. It’s just that a lot of Linux drivers don’t get signed fast enough so you’d have to wait longer to get them with secure boot.
Why he disabled TPM, I don’t know. It works just fine on my device, although I don’t use it.
On my machine it says that soft disabling Intel ME would disable the TPM functionality.
But not too sure about that so not spreading any rumors.
It is dasharo coreboot from Novacustom. Very cool project.