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    Can't relate to be honest, I still use MBR boot (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    MBR is so easy to understand. UEFI, has so many things to understand EFI, ESP, MOK, signing procedures and signing chains, ... it's just so darn complicated.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    • Disable secureboot
    • Things just work

    And in the end you just remove the need for a physical attacker to use whatever vulnerability there is in your EFI implementation anyway.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Things just work

    Yeah, if you have only one OS. Or when you have more than one, but the other one doesn't constantly try to fuck up the first one.

    MBR is easy in this regard. Windows never touches the MBR magic, even when updating, so it's all good. GRUB keeps the MBR in check, Windows doesn't meddle, everything's hunky dory in MBR boot land.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Windows never touches the MBR magic

    I get you're young from that statement alone.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    I'm not (38). I should have been more precise, Windows doesn't touch the MBR magic any more.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yep. Plus, the less the firmware knows what you're booting, the better.