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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

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253 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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saidinesh5 ◴[18 Jul 25 06:54 UTC] No.44601960[source]▶
Just out of curiosity, how good is the secure boot experience these days?

I've had to disable it on all my installations because of either nvidia drivers or virtual box modules. In general Arch based distros didn't seem too friendly for secure boot set up.

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pbhjpbhj ◴[18 Jul 25 07:48 UTC] No.44602279[source]▶
Every couple of years MS do an update that messes up multi-boot/dual boot. I'm sure it's on purpose at this point, and relatively sure "Secure Boot" is how they achieve it.

Still on Windows only for kids games. Linux user since last millennium.

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blkhawk ◴[18 Jul 25 08:09 UTC] No.44602385[source]▶
As a Linux-only gamer since 2019 I wonder what kids games you are talking about?
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1. pbhjpbhj ◴[18 Jul 25 13:22 UTC] No.44604378[source]▶
I've stopped trying to fight to install things on Linux. Anything with kernel level anticheat it seems is torment. They okay Fortnite, and quite a bit of Marvel Rivals (which initially worked, then stopped, I see reports suggesting it's working again but I don't have time to be full-time support to keep things running smoothly).

We do use Kubuntu for games that run in it without drama - Risk of Rain, Roblox (via Sober), browser games, CS2.

They also are expected to use Microsoft Office for school (UK), it's possible to work that online, but the experience is worse, slower, more prone to issues it seems.

Fwiw, I've been a Linux distro user for decades and was Linux only until the first child got to highschool. Microsoft's "educational" policy works for them!