• Laser@feddit.org
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    There are probably cases where turning off Secure Boot is fine. If you make that decision for yourself and are aware of the implications, go ahead. My remark wasn’t against users turning it off, but rather against the advice of “just turn it off lol”

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      “just turn it off lol”

      Yeah, that’s probably just people who read the initial comments from back when secure boot keys were not user configurable (and support wasn’t available in Linux) and kept on echoing it all the way to the present.

      Kinda similar to the “Linux is just secure” echoers, who might have started from some proper argument explaining what kinds of security problems don’t exist in systems developed using Linux and why they don’t require installing a 24/7 antivirus background process. Because people tend to make catchphrases. I too sometimes, forget the implications and tend to make them.