The idea is the opposite, to not rely in MS for Secure Boot. True that they created the secure boot but not because they created that is a bad idea. Many Linux distributions support Secure Boot through their own signing keys or by using tools like Shim (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSuse, Arch, Gentoo and NixOS), allowing us to maintain control and security without depending on Microsoft. Secure Boot is a security feature that ensures your computer boots only trusted software, reducing the risk of malware. It checks the signatures of boot software and only allows signed, trusted components to load. This helps protect your system from unauthorized access during startup. Not flawless but is better with than without. Also, along with other strategies it may some day be used by the gaming vendors as a potential via to validate anti cheat. Recently the systemd made some progress in the area enhancing the TPM config.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1001730/

“the TPM PCRs could be used either to lock a disk-encryption key to only be used on kernels signed by a particular OS vendor, or to lock a disk-encryption key to specific local things, such as the firmware version, available hardware, etc. Now, with systemd 257, the user can configure both these kinds of requirements at once.”

Genuine question, doesn’t PopOS requires to disable secure boot to install? Not a big fan of distros that request it

Lol

Thanks

Hahaha… I’m not gonna lie, you probably nailed my current state

Agree. Asus never really put much of an effort to support Linux, for example, for the big companies, fwupd, we only see Dell and Lenovo support.

What about LinkedIn? Is people jumping out of it?

I wonder if zero RPM is supported for Nvidia cards as well

All good, it is not past tense. Just felt joy about that thought and felt that should share somewhere.

Is this available in KDE?

I’d use a Steamdeck mini if was available. The current size for my needs makes me classify it as a non-portable. Hope the next version they have a smaller variant along with the larger one.

Would like to know if this will be able to upgrade to use Thunderbolt 5 or USB 4 v2 for proper eGPU support in the future.

Doesn’t Nobara still not supporting Secure Boot and requiring it to be turned off for Nvidia support?

Kububtu is a good place to start, too. I notice that people recommend Ubuntu but some may be also including the other flavors when saying it. I think KDE is a nice DE, specially because of Dolphin.

Maybe sometimes it goes by accident =]

I’ll sound a downer but it lost me on “Discord App”