Back in the late 2000s, computer firmware was moving from legacy BIOS to UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI . Alongside it came Secure Boot. This Microsoft supported security mechanism was designed to stop bootkits and firmware‑level malware that traditional operating system security couldn't detect in its tracks. Secure Boot was messy, but it did the job . For people trying to install and run Linux on Windows PCs , this setup was a real pain in the rump. Here we are, 14...
