Re:Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors
by arp242 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:11PM
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Systems like Ubuntu, Suse, etc. should "just work" with secure boot. This has been the case for over 10 years (Ubuntu starting with 12.04, in a quick check). I just run a custom hacked-up version of Void Linux because I'm cool like that, but no one new to Linux is doing that – they start out with Ubuntu or such, just as I started out with Mandrake back in the day.
Also I actually got my laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed, a concept that barely existed in 2000.
Re:Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors
by hedora on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:24PM
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Secure boots works great with Linux.
Some distros use the MS signed grub shim, but you can generally just go into the BIOS and whitelist whatever bootloader you installed (and optionally disable the factory-loaded MS keys, which I generally do, since I don’t dual boot).
An imagined conversation:
“Mom, I want to disable secure boot so I can try a free operating system.”
“Oh no you don’t. Security is important.”
This won’t happen to anyone who actually knows what they’re talking about, but it’s having a real impact on the pipeline for getting there. The conversation isn’t as imagined as all that.