I totally agree. I am an IT Profe and it’s still very irritating to have to jump through these hoops. Plus each manufacturer has a different key you need to press to access the bios. Sometimes the same OEM will have different keys on different models.
So you try the normal ones which don’t work and then have to Google the model number to try find out which key to hold.
Frustrating and time consuming. And definitely makes it very difficult for the average user to install Linux.
I sometimes think Microsoft did it on purpose to hinder Linux installs and then disguised it as “security”.
It’s not really “security” if you can turn it off is it?