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So, Secure Boot for Windows is basically a mode of running your system that cryptographically links your Windows OS to the BIOS/UEFI... and the way that this works is almost always incompatible with a dual boot setup that includes Linux... maybe unless you have literally physically distinct harddrives/ssds/microsd/usb drives that each OS lives on?

And then do extra steps to tell your now Windows managed BIOS/UEFI that your linux dual boot OS is also 'safe' for Windows to allow your sysyem to boot?

The Steam Deck does not officially support Windows Secure boot.

Because...

Basically, Secure Boot means that ... no other OS is allowed to boot.

That's what 'Secure' means, to Windows/MSFT.

There are basically workaround hacks to attempt to get Win 10 Secure Boot working on a Deck, but they are not official, unsupported, could break at any time with any Windows update.

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So yeah, you cannot do a Win 10 + Linux dual boot where that Win 10 boot is also 'Secure', at the same time.

If you start with a dual boot config, and then manage to enable secure boot for Win 10... chances are very high that Win 10 will then reconfigure your boot config to disable dual boot, it'll wipe out GRUB, and now your linux stuff ... is still there, but you can't access it.

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This isn't really a direct answer to your question, but MSFT and ... more or less, everything it touches, hardware, software... have been making it harder and harder to successfully dual boot Windows and Linux for over a decade now.

If you or others in this thread somehow can figure this out, in a reliably stable way, well, that's honestly impressive...

But imo, it isn't worth the effort.

Any game update, or Windows update, or Mobo firmware level BIOS/UEFI update... could blow up your entire solution, because your entire solution basically by definition is actually going to be a hacky workaround that tricks Win 10 into thinking it is Secure Boot mode, when it actually isn't.

MSFT really, really wants you to use its virtualized version of linux (WSL), or run a linux VM, but keep everything on bare metal Windows.

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All that being said:

https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SecureBootForSteamDeck

EDIT: Whoops, you already found this, derp.

You may or may not be able to get this to work, but absolutely back up your entire linux system and every personal document and file and program on it, back it up to another physical drive of some kind before you do it, as you should expect more or less catastrophic failure if anything goes wrong, like fucking up a ROM flash of a smartphone.

Yep, you got it.

The ability to parse a human voice into text in near realtime?

Legitimate accomplishment.

Pretty high quality voice synthesis so it can talk back to you?

Also impressive!

But... you could have just plugged those things into... any other kind of system that evaluates inputs and generates outputs.

Could have just made it into basically an addon for wikipedia, webmd, whatever, with something like a very advanced version of a dialogue tree to basically frame the content, fucking clippy could do a reasonable job of summarizing and shortening long chunks of text into cliffs notes versions, 20 years ago.

Deus Ex predicted this.

Morpheus, the 'prototype of a much larger system', canonically created around 2027:

"God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary."

"The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."

"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."

"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."

We are also largely on track for the NSF uprising, civil war, balkanization into corporate city states... and the right wing conspiracy of the 90s, FEMA death camps?

Well, more like ICE, but uh, FEMA funds are currently being rerouted toward concentration camps, and FEMA employees have also recently been reassigned to ICE.

The militia types from the 80s and 90s, Alex Jones... well, they willed their own nightmare into existance... extremely ironic.

Time to go back to Wind Talkers...

Oh, wait, ICE can't tell a brown Native American from a Hispanic, never mind.

Thanks, I am now imagining a floating, disembodied Nappa head just going:

Vegeta. Vegeta! Vegeta. Vegeta. Vegeta. Vegeta!

I know I know lol, I was actually working for MSFT during the Windows Phone era. =P

I'm not joking about underground vaults of servers under the main MSFT campus tho, tee hee!

Seriously, that whole campus just is its own fucking city, MSFT literally has its own... corporate mass transit system, fleets of cars and buses to drive people around, also take them to and from work if you're roughly within a 20 mile radius of BelRed.

Hooray for non toxic and biodegradeable paint!

It's basically viscous food dye, lol, and I think even the uh, the hulls, the capsules, I believe they're largely biodegradable these days as well.

MSFT, the everything platform!

... that plays by Hotel California rules...

That's not cherenkov radiation...

... that's Cortana, oh God she's still rampant!!!

Used to be that MSFT would take down a Nazi chatbot, get embarassed, pretend the whole thing never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Now they're just paying for it... 'cautiously'.

What happened to Cortana?

Did she get all corrupted and go feral or whatever?

Is she just like, locked into some airgapped cluster, somewhere underneath Redmond, slowly becoming SHODAN?

Yes!

Yes, they're all computer programs, no, they're not all as spectacularly energy, water and money intensive, as reliant on mass plagiarism as LLMs.

AI is a much, much more varied field of research than just LLMs... or, well, rather, it was, untill the entire industry decided to go all in on what 5 years ago was just one of many, many, radically different approaches, such that people now basically just think AI and LLM are the same thing.