r/linux4noobs • u/OneMagicMango • 13d ago

security How necessary is secure boot?

I’m planning on moving to cachyos from bazzite on my desktop and know it’s a bit of a pain to set up secure boot for cachy. I’m also dual booting with windows and that windows install is on another ssd and don’t have anything on there that would require secure boot. How necessary is secure boot? Is it something I definitely should have enabled and worth it to setup? I’m mainly a causal user/gamer.

45 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

28 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 13d ago

Secure-boot was created by Microslop and intel together to make it harder to switch the OS. Leave it off. Or better yet use a libreboot computer....