Comment by teddyh
“buggy”
“buggy”
This reminds me of when I enrolled only my own keys into a gigabyte AB350 and I just soft-bricked it because presumably some opt-rom required MS keys.
I exchanged it for an Asrock board and there I can enable secure boot without MS keys and still have it boot cuz they actually let you choose what level of signing the opt-rom needs when you enable secure boot.
What I want to say with this is that it requires the company to actually care to provide a good experience.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to attribute a lot of malice to Microsoft, but in this case I really do believe that it was incompetence. Everything I've ever read about 90%+ of hardware vendors is that shipping hilariously broken firmware is an everyday occurrence for them.
(This is separate from Windows RT, of course)