I bought one of these laptops. It came with Windows 11. I followed the steps on Ubuntu website to flash a USB drive and the laptop didn't boot from it, despite selecting to boot from USB. After disabling Secure Boot from BIOS, I was able to install Ubuntu. Windows continued to work just fine.
iirc whatever cert grub was using has been blacklisted by Lenovo because of some recent security issue in grub (I can't find the details right now).
Whatever your stance on Secure Boot, this increases friction and raises the tech bar for people to install other OSes. I imagine that even a "power" user wanting to try Linux would be very confused and would probably give up after not being able to boot from USB.
iirc whatever cert grub was using has been blacklisted by Lenovo because of some recent security issue in grub (I can't find the details right now).
Whatever your stance on Secure Boot, this increases friction and raises the tech bar for people to install other OSes. I imagine that even a "power" user wanting to try Linux would be very confused and would probably give up after not being able to boot from USB.