Will Windows 11 and Slackware dual boot be possible?
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Will Windows 11 and Slackware dual boot be possible?
If Windows 11 is going to force us to enable Secure Boot and have TPM 2.0 will dual booting with Slackware be possible? If I remember correctly Slackware doesn't have the required Microsoft certificates?
According to Microsoft's documentation, Windows 11 also requires the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) – version 2.0 – and UEFI Secure Boot enabled.
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Although the latest version of Windows 10 (21H1) will go all the way back to the fifth generation of Intel's chippery, Windows 11 is a good deal more choosy and starts at the eighth generation.
Micro$oft insists that we need to buy new systems.
I might make the decision to give up their Windows, there are enough Linux distributions for desktop.
The Secure Boot today is NOT an issue for any major Linux distribution, excluding the Slackware. All other of them have the ability to boot on a Secure Boot enabled computer.
I believe that releasing Slackware 15.0 without signed bootloaders and kernels (then also Secure Boot support) will be a very huge mistake.
Because Slackware will exclude itself from a huge part of today computers.
BTW, I heard that to buy a signing key from Microsoft costs about $250 .
Last edited by LuckyCyborg; 06-27-2021 at 09:21 AM.
The Secure Boot today is NOT an issue for any major Linux distribution, excluding the Slackware. All other of them have the ability to boot on a Secure Boot enabled computer.
I believe that releasing Slackware 15.0 without signed bootloaders and kernels (then also Secure Boot support) will be an very huge mistake.
Because Slackware will exclude itself from a huge part of today computers.
BTW, I heard that to buy a signing key from Microsoft costs about $250 .
The devil Micro$oft never gets tired of making money.
Couldn't they deliver these signing keys for free?
They want to control everything!
The devil Micro$oft never gets tired of making money.
Couldn't they deliver these signing keys for free?
They want to control everything!
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Originally Posted by ponce
sorry, if I want to run my own custom kernel on my own pc do I have to pay Microsoft $250?
Sorry, gentlemen! BUT, I do not talk about you and your custom kernels. I talk about Slackware and its ability to boot on a Secure Boot environment, along with Windows 11.
For you Gurus who love to customize your own kernels, there are solutions, IF you bother to look for.
I heard that there is even a Secure Boot SHIM, for example.
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