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Doesn't this enable them to be installed on systems with Secureboot enabled without having the user muck around in the BIOS? Smart for VMs?
by cptskippy 3y ago
Doesn't this enable them to be installed on systems with Secureboot enabled without having the user muck around in the BIOS? Smart for VMs?
- TacticalCoder 3y agoI can see your point but, geez, that's pretty depressing if it's the only reason it's supported! As a sidenote for having installed Debian with SecureBoot on on several systems, I'd say I still had to muck around quite some in the BIOS/UEFI. Latest one I scratched my hair for a bit was an AMD 3700X on an Asrock mobo where I somehow had to turn "CSM" (Compatibility Support Module) off otherwise Debian would stubbornly start the non-UEFI (and hence no SecureBoot) installer. On my Asus / AMD 7700X things were a bit easier but I still had to toggle some SecureBoot setting (from "custom" to "default" or the contrary, don't remember). All this to say: it's still not totally streamlined and users still need to muck around anyway.
- Vogtinator 3y agoThere's another reason but it's even worse: Some certifications require that secure boot is enabled.