“I have multiple questions. Does this have a UEFI BIOS, does it support booting to different operating systems via SD card, and is it possible to flash the EMMC with a different operating system?”
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Yes it is UEFI. I just got the Kano PC last week, and promptly installed Linux Mint on it from a USB stick onto the internal eMMC "hard drive". The trick is to press and hold the Alt+F7 keys at just the right moment at power-on to choose the USB stick for booting. Or, the easier way if your reflexes are not quick enough, is to just let Windows start up, then go to Settings - Update & Security - Recovery - Advanced startup/ Restart now - Use a device - select boot device of the USB stick. Most modern Linux distros work with UEFI installations, such as Mint and its source, Ubuntu, and probably Fedora, SUSE, Debian, and their derivatives. Keep in mind that you don't have a lot of space on the eMMC drive for having dual operating systems installed. I used gparted to reduce the main Windows "C:" drive to about 38 GB, then compressed all I could with the file manager, and set up about 16 GB for Mint, and 1 GB for its swap partition. Leave the other Windows recovery and UEFI partitions alone if you might ever want to fully restore the original Windows setup (i.e. if you want to give/sell it to someone not interested in Linux). Get a high capacity internal micro SD card for offloading all the software and data you can - probably should split it between NTFS for Windows, and Ext4 for Linux partitions. Installing Portable Apps on the NTFS partition will let you add a lot of useful Windows software (Open Office, Firefox, Chrome, games, utilities, etc) without impacting the C: drive space much at all (good idea for even Windows-only setups, too!).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The Kano PC does have a UEFI BIOS. While you can use another operating system with the Kano PC, since the Kano PC is made in partnership with Microsoft, we are only able to offer support for Windows 10.
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