Dual boot Manjaro with windows 11

Is it possible to install manjaro alongside windows 11 on a laptop with secure boot enabled? How to create a dual boot setup without disabling secure boot? Any potential risks to be aware of during the installation process?

Welcome to the forum! :vulcan_salute:

No, Secure Boot must be disabled in order to install Manjaro. You can of course re-enable Secure Boot after installing, but it’s not all that easy, and we do not support it.

If you do want it enabled, then you should consult Unified Extensible Firmware Interface/Secure Boot - ArchWiki.

By choosing another distribution, perhaps? :stuck_out_tongue:

Hi @AldertBas, and welcome!

The forum has a search function, y’know, and if you’d have used it, you would have found many articles/posts regarding secure boot:

(I don’t know if this’ll work, but I provided it to illustrate my point.)

Also, as @Aragorn said:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#Implementing_Secure_Boot

(Which should have been your first stop, really.)

But personally, I don’t like the idea of a paying a third party for permission to use my own computer, so secure boot is turned off.

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Microsoft is in control around secure boot, i would evade that shady stuff.

You can also Install Win11 without the secure boot or you choose another distro.

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I have it disabled and my win 11 runs perfectly fine.

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I have disabled (read: removed) my Windows, and Linux runs better than fine.

:smile: :innocent: :smile:

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Short answer is no - because Manjaro does not support secure boot.

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