said by rexbinary:Thanks for the clarifications.
said by markofmayhem:Since ya'll are too dumb to turn off the required by Microsoft EFI "BIOS" setting, Fedora is paying $99 for version 18.... one-off payment of $99 (unless I completely read that wrong?)
Turning it off all together is fine if you are only going to run Fedora. Personally I currently dual boot Fedora and Win 7. (I run Win 7 just for gaming.) While I doubt I'll be upgrading to Win 8, if I did have a need to dual boot Fedora and Win 8 I would need to enable the BIOS for secure boot to be able to boot Win 8. So just disabling secure boot might not be an option for everyone.
That is not correct, Win 8 will boot with Secure Boot off (to support the billions of PC's currently working today and those that will be sold over the next 6 months). Secure Boot is not a requirement for the OS to boot, only the certification "sticker" on Intel/AMD x86 platforms.
ARM is very different, but again, the code to not allow Windows 8 to boot with Secure Boot off is not present there either. However, on ARM, the EFI itself has no option to be disabled.
Do not forget, the Samsung tablet with Secure Boot was also used to showcase Microsoft Windows 8's new "dual boot" screen with Windows 7. Secure Boot was disabled to accomplish this at Microsoft's show.