"Then they fight you, then you win."
The criminals from Microsoft (and their collaborators) have sunken to old tactics
Comments on Microsoft's "duel" boot (attacking millions of GNU/Linux partitions with impunity):
Dual boot with Windows is like a marriage with a narcissist person: no amount of technical virtuosity, self-control or temperance will protect you from experiencing pain and suffering recurrently.Windows installation can do any damage it wants to Linux installation at any occasion. There is no natural, technical or legal barrier for that. What's so hard to understand about the fragility of the situation?
Just go and buy another computer if you keep yourself so entangled deliberately.
"Windows isn't done till the Linux won't run."
Even more strange is that someone would have to have Secure Boot enabled for this to be a problem. Would someone that concerned with security really be running Windows in the first place, especially when they already have a GNU/Linux installation?
Microsoft and security in the same sentence is unless the gist of the sentence is Microsoft does not have one single fscking clue how to do it. To trust anything to this company is to get what you deserve for using a virus/trojan delivery system masquerading as an OS as has been proven for literally decades now at this point. They have even given up all pretense of not being one with the new keylogger/spyware features that will make it even easier for the criminals to steal your data by recording ever God damn thing you do and storing it unencrypted EVEN. Thankfully my twenty-fifth anniversary of being free from their garbage just passed by early this spring. I will never use this so called secure boot feature as it is designed by a bunch of incompetent fools.
The coherent explanation is that this can ultimately be traced back to the code (of unknown provenance) that Crazy Matt there got accepted into the kernel and boot loader. You do realize that Crazy Matt there is the full reason why Microsoft got away with the shim in the first place, right? He's not an unbiased source on this.
Hmph, is that some corporatespeak I detect in the words "a fix for a security vulnerability in the Grub2 boot loader"? A "fix"? They call disabling Grub a "fix"?! Yeah, "fixed" in the same sense as applied to pet cats and dogs! Is this the start of a new offensive in MS's war against free software?
Delete Windows. Never allow it anywhere near you again. Also complain to regulators. At worst, they'll do nothing.
We've asked someone from the FSF if the FSF will issue a statement on what Microsoft did to GNU/Linux via 'secure' boot, emphasising that "it's a good opportunity to explain it was never about security but a lie." █