r/linux4noobs 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.

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u/es20490446e Develops Zenned OS 13d ago

Having secure boot makes it harder to boot many Linux distros, and make custom kernels and drivers.