> Remember, you run Linux on modern hardware only because Microsoft allows you to.
Factually wrong.
Any regular PC owner can run Linux on modern x86 hardware in at least three ways:
- Legacy BIOS MBR boot
- UEFI boot
- UEFI secure boot
Only the last one of those three options requires a signed shim, and only if you don’t enrol your own keys.
> Microsoft signed the Red Hat shim, and if you disabled Secure Boot, it's only because a Microsoft policy gave you the ability to disable it -- a policy they can later reverse.
This FUS has been repeated the last 10 years+ and it gets less convincing every year.
No OEM or PC vendor wants to limit their amount of potential in what is already a cut-margin business.
Taking away the ability to disable secure boot or taking away the legacy BIOS boot option will only cost them customers, and they literally have nothing to gain.
Microsoft could just not give discounts to computer suppliers that don't have UEFI secure boot on forced on.
I definitely recall Microsoft killing hardware manufacturers putting Linux on the machines that they sold by mandating that if they put Linux on any consumer desktop they would not get the OEM discount for a Windows licence for any computer they sold. It stopped new non Windows PC sales dead at the time IIRC. This was something like over a decade ago.
Factually wrong.
Any regular PC owner can run Linux on modern x86 hardware in at least three ways:
- Legacy BIOS MBR boot
- UEFI boot
- UEFI secure boot
Only the last one of those three options requires a signed shim, and only if you don’t enrol your own keys.
> Microsoft signed the Red Hat shim, and if you disabled Secure Boot, it's only because a Microsoft policy gave you the ability to disable it -- a policy they can later reverse.
This FUS has been repeated the last 10 years+ and it gets less convincing every year.
No OEM or PC vendor wants to limit their amount of potential in what is already a cut-margin business.
Taking away the ability to disable secure boot or taking away the legacy BIOS boot option will only cost them customers, and they literally have nothing to gain.