Is there a plan to support secure boot in manjaro by default?

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@Leo

if there is no plan in near future

No, there is no such plan.

Secure boot? MS cutting out most other OSs

Well, for some security obscurity you want to have only one OS installed on a machine. Why you even need Linux Distros on that machine if you can load those Linux Apps even graphically via WSL. Sure at some point you might need secureboot enabled also on Manjaro to support the latest stock hardware. However, we have also hardware partners designing hardware especially for Linux. So in the end we will have the OS supported by hardware we have somehow control over.

Here is another reason why not

Is it possible to enable Secure Boot?

The main developer of Rufus really dislikes Secure Boot FAQ · pbatard/rufus Wiki · GitHub that page has a link to official policy this: Microsoft UEFI CA Signing policy updates While Microsoft reserves the right to sign or not sign submissions at its discretion, this list of requirements should be adhered to… Code submitted for UEFI signing must not be subject to GPLv3 or any license that purports to give someone the right to demand authorization keys to be able to install modified forms …

You can follow this as has a link to arch wiki for it if you want it.

Is it possible to install manjaro on a machine that has secure boot active?

Technically yes if you sign the boot image yourself. However, it’s neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. See Unified Extensible Firmware Interface/Secure Boot - ArchWiki