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Anecdotal but I’ve never had any issue with Linux. Aside from installing Nvidia proprietary drivers when secureboot is enabled. In which case DKMS is broken so

Anecdotal but I’ve never had any issue with Linux. Aside from installing Nvidia proprietary drivers when secureboot is enabled. In which case DKMS is broken so I had to enroll a new signing key in MOK and use that to sign the nvidia kernel driver. If I need to run Windows, I will either use WINE or single GPU pass through to a Windows VM on KVM. Never needed to dual boot. Edge on Linux is great actually, I just don’t like that I can’t disable the listening on avahi ports even though I have disabled avahi. Apparently Edge uses it to mask IP when using WebRTC.

pierrebai 5y ago
That was a crash course on how to self-disprove one's argument, all in the first sentence. "It works well, except for this extremely common use case that requires arcane knowledge to fix."
- mise_en_place 5y ago
  Or you could just disable SecureBoot. I needed it for a specific use case on my laptop that had sensitive work related information (full disk encryption plus SecureBoot enabled).
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  It is secure boot specific which I believe is a in theory working but in reality a broken mechanism because of certificate logistics. We could also call it Microsoft Boot at this point. Sure, it will work better in Windows, but it comes at a hidden price. Also, this won't give you too many benefits aside from convenience to skip one password entry, while any Saas will at some point leverage it against you if it every gets popular. That is basically the gist of secure boot or trusted platform in general right now. Smartphones are trusted platforms and their software landscape is atrocious and predatory. Trusted platforming would move it in exactly the same direction. Meanwhile boot viruses have become quite rare, because phishing and extortion is much more profitable.

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Anecdotal but I’ve never had any issue with Linux. Aside from installing Nvidia proprietary drivers when secureboot is enabled. In which case DKMS is broken so

by mise_en_place 5y ago

pierrebai 5y ago
That was a crash course on how to self-disprove one's argument, all in the first sentence. "It works well, except for this extremely common use case that requires arcane knowledge to fix."
- mise_en_place 5y ago
  Or you could just disable SecureBoot. I needed it for a specific use case on my laptop that had sensitive work related information (full disk encryption plus SecureBoot enabled).
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  It is secure boot specific which I believe is a in theory working but in reality a broken mechanism because of certificate logistics. We could also call it Microsoft Boot at this point. Sure, it will work better in Windows, but it comes at a hidden price. Also, this won't give you too many benefits aside from convenience to skip one password entry, while any Saas will at some point leverage it against you if it every gets popular. That is basically the gist of secure boot or trusted platform in general right now. Smartphones are trusted platforms and their software landscape is atrocious and predatory. Trusted platforming would move it in exactly the same direction. Meanwhile boot viruses have become quite rare, because phishing and extortion is much more profitable.