Post #2046927
2026-04-25 00:38 UTC
@enriquericos It's not a Windows-specific feature. Linux can do secure boot as well to make sure your boot partition wasn't tampered with.
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@enriquericos@mastoart.social 2026-04-25 01:07
@bryanredeagle I assumed it was Windows because I found this, on a thread about the exact same issue: "(...) So, mainboard vendors generally include Microsoft's public key in their trusted platform module (the chip storing the data used to verify software), and allows booting Microsoft-signed boot loaders. And that's what the major Linux distributions did: get a Microsoft account, ask Microsoft to sign their bootloaders, and thus make them possible to boot on most mainboards (...)