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Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools

I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?

It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.

It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.

I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.

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Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Windows 11

I do all my gaming on steam deck these days, which means every battlefield except 4 is unplayable. Idk if bf6 would have worked but 2042 did before they turned on their new anti-cheat in an update.

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ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I dual boot.

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- Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Why not enroll a key for your second OS?
  
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  - ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I run a custom kernel, I have no intention if signing everything all the time.
    
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    9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    If you use systemd, mkinitio and sbctl can sign it all for you automatically during updates.
    
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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’d have a problem as it’s been turned off since my original Windows 10 install. I’d have to reinstall if I enabled it because I installed Windows in BIOS mode. There are ways around all that, but it’s a little risky.

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- Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?
  
  MBR2GPT makes the conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.
  
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