It's totally crazy that we have to go through Microsoft to sign things to be able to have our OS run on third parties computers, and that Microsoft manage to win about this so easily as it was never seriously challenged.
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Microsoft showed they can semi-competently run a PKI. The end.
Now had the Linux folks stepped up to the plate early on, instead of childishly acting like Secure Boot was the computing antichrist, the story might be different. But they didn't. We only have shim because some people at Red Hat had the common sense to play ball.
This kind of victim blaming gets annoying very quick, as if the Linux ecosystem had any leverage at all on PC manufacturers…
Linux has 63% of the server marketshare, which is where Secure Boot and the whole chain-of-trust has utmost importance. Of course they have leverage.
Do you think overall Secure Boot is more important in the context of securing your bank's servers, or some porno jack machine throwaway laptop?