Dual-Boot Linux Users Need to Update Systems Due to GRUB/SBAT Policy Changes in Windows

[johnspack]

I always segregate the windows boot loader to a single drive, and only select it during bios boot. I can't afford the infection on my ext4 drives.
It's easy to keep it all separate.

 

[trparky]

Yes please! Although, that might only add to my biggest gripe with Linux, segmentation. If everyone just came together and made one unified Linux desktop distro, it could run circles around Windows. It already does as a server OS.

I've been saying that for years now. If the Linux community really wanted to kill Microsoft stone dead, it could happen tomorrow. But no, we can't do that all because of this mystical thing called "choice." Well, the average user couldn't give rat's ass about choice. They just want to sit down at their computer and watch TikTok's and Instagrams. But until the Linux community pulls their collective heads out of their equally collective asses and realizes that they need to cater to the average user, Windows is what we have to deal with.

I'd love to see Windows as nothing more than a footnote in the history books but I just don't see it happening when I look at the fragmentation of the Linux community.

 

[lexluthermiester]

They just want to sit down at their computer and watch TikTok's and Instagrams.

IG's maybe. But in my neck of the woods, more people watch Netflix, Youtube and other streaming services rather than TikTox.

 

[b1k3rdude]

Not without consent. They own they keys that you are running. That's the premise of secure boot. Linux can do the same. In the past, it even has.

But I imagine linux is more forthcoming and less surreptitious when it does..?

Well... secure boot itself as a REQUIREMENT has always been a bit iffy with me, so yeah.

Indeed, there was an article a few years back that laid bare what Secure boot 'actually is' and in short its nothing of the sort. Would like to find and bookmark said article as Im constant pointing it out heh. I refuse to enable it or bitlocker, if I really want security I would use a self enrypting SSD or as I do atm, 3rd party file/folder encryption.