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[โ€“] agegamon@beehaw.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While Linux does have something called Secure Boot, that's not what game devs are tapping into. They want Windows. There are ways to get around it with virtual machines or streaming, but essentially, there's no casual route to playing these games without Windows.

Throwing in on winslop right now is an absolutely bonkers decision. About as stupid as laying people off thinking that AI will "make up the difference."

It's not exactly like I'm going to play this anyway. But I wouldn't switch back to windows even for a game I liked, if they did scumbag shit like this.

Winbloat has the absolutely insecure "secure boot", meanwhile a properly secure Linux machine with libreboot (or any Android device) has something that sounds similar called verified boot. The difference is one of them is absolutely not secure and spoiler alert its the microslop one.

Ideally a modern Linux system should be able to implement FDE and a verified boot setup but sadly for software or hardware reasons that might not be possible for most setups