I know this is one of the most asked questions but i couldn’t find a satisfactory answer despite searching google for it. So i’m making a post here.
Do i need to disable secure boot to install manjaro?
Another question i have is… If i do need to disable it…then can i enable secure boot again after i am done installing manjaro? or do i have to keep it disabled for it to be able to load everytime i switch my compute On
I use windows 10, 64bit, NVIDIA Graphics Card, UEFI
what i meant is that, ‘should’ i enable it(?). Bcoz i wasnt sure if manjaro would load with secure boot enabled. And having SecBoot enabled feels kinda safe too, one thing to get off your mind haha
You should leave it disabled. There is a way to get Manjaro to work with Secure Boot, but it is not officially supported.
And truth be told, Secure Boot isn’t all that secure either. It’s essentially just a failed attempt by Microsoft (under Steve Ballmer) to monopolize the hardware of the x86-64 and arm platforms and tie them to Microsoft Windows, because Microsoft was afraid of losing market share to GNU/Linux, and unlike Apple, they didn’t have a hardware platform of their own.
Secure Boot as a security precaution has already been exploited ─ albeit not in the wild yet. In my personal opinion, it’s junk, but Microsoft is on the UEFI committee, and so it was adopted into the specifications.
Important note: Disabling Secure Boot is not the same thing as choosing legacy BIOS support. My system here boots in native UEFI mode, but Secure Boot is disabled ─ it was a shop-built machine that came without an operating system installed, and I don’t do Microsoft Windows.