coreboot
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
2warn against
Nov 17, 2025first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Not one single mention of coreboot in this thread? sad...”
“a Protectli box running Coreboot and OPNSense and haven't looked back”
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“it was a fantastic linux device”
used a cheap chromebook throughout collegeon “Google ending ChromeOS support two years early”
“Coreboot in desktops is perhaps in the best shape it has been in more than a decade”
“U-boot and coreboot are free (ring -2 if they include ACPI / SMM, else still ring 0).”
Caveats and dissent
“Neither is Coreboot which has blobs for many other things.”
“coreboot doesn't have BIOS password feature”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth 1 mention
- Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support 1 mention
- Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit 1 mention
- GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression 1 mention
- Google ending ChromeOS support two years early 1 mention
- ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system 1 mention
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All comments 14
“Not one single mention of coreboot in this thread? sad...”
“Coreboot just ships source.”
“a Protectli box running Coreboot and OPNSense and haven't looked back”
“My Qubes laptop runs coreboot with Heads”
“it was a fantastic linux device”
“Coreboot in desktops is perhaps in the best shape it has been in more than a decade”
“Neither is Coreboot which has blobs for many other things.”
“I'd have hoped with the coreboot upstreaming effort they would keep official releases coming”
“U-boot and coreboot are free (ring -2 if they include ACPI / SMM, else still ring 0).”
It replaces a proprietary component of your system with an open source one. Reading https://libreboot.org/#why-use-libreboot might provide further enlightenment.
“I love coreboot, openbmc, etc. as much as the next guy”
“(with coreboot with Heads)”
“but the coreboot code has been updated”
“coreboot doesn't have BIOS password feature”