• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Fuck, I’m gonna have to enable secure boot (and use windows) to play the BF6 open beta, am I gonna get the same buillshit ?

    If it doesn’t affect my Linux drives I don’t care much tbh, I’ll probably just nuke windows and reinstall it

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      2 months ago

      Even if you enable Secure Boot, you can disable BitLocker, and that will prevent this from happening.

      The only thing BitLocker really does is make it so that if somebody steals your computer and doesn’t have your password, all of your files will be encrypted, so they don’t get your files too.

      Depending on your risk preference, it is okay to disable it.

      Of course, if your computer does not have a password, or if the password is something really easy, then there’s no point in bitlocker in the first place.

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      2 months ago

      If you use Rufus to burn the ISO into the USB, there is an option to patch the ISO to not require secure boot.

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            2 months ago

            I basically never boot into windows except to play these anti cheat games with friends anyway, so I’ll just bite the bullet and deal with rebooting twice just to change OS to play the beta, but yeah it’s a weird ass requirement especially since it is apparently quite easy to exploit some vulnerable signed drivers to inject shit into memory anyway.

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      2 months ago

      I was going to try the BF6 open beta. It uses javelin anti cheat which is kernel level and requires secureboot on and active.

      Complain about that in the steam forums though and ignorant troglodytes come out of the muck and filth to screech “cheater! Stupid boomer can’t figure it out!” and other drivel.