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Re:Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration by zozbot234 on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:07AM (#44602985)
> Which is exactly why users have the freedom and choice to just disable Secure Boot?

There's some x86 hardware in the wild where the option to disable Secure Boot does not work. Which is part of the reason why Shim exists in the first place - it allows you to boot unsigned code with the machine owner's consent, even with Secure Boot enabled.

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Re:Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration by speeder on Friday July 18, 2025 @08:56AM (#44604195)
I had a Windows 8 laptop like this. Not only that, it rejected Shim too. Never managed to install Linux on it.

Weirdly I had to leave secure boot option turned off too after a while, because more and more games started to have issues with the nVidia GPU. There was a RPG I forgot the name, isometricish that would outright crash if secure boot was turned on.

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