Hello people !

Just wanted to gather some thoughts on something that I keep seeing over and over again here on reddit...

Basically I know that secure boot 👢 is a subject that is complex in the Arch world.

Especially for newbie who might have it enabled by default. So my first question is wouldn’t it be possible to create an official sec boot image and have it available on mirrors ?

I’m aware of projects such as archboot but it isn’t “common” knowledge. I’m also aware if the many manual guides and have done it myself with sbctl/systemd-boot.

But here is the catch user still requires to deactivate it for setup, + Bios settings sometimes varies quite a lot + for example archinstall doesn’t really provide a way to do it out of the box either (again think of the newbie). Like Fedora/Ubuntu installers.

Anyways I think it would be a great addition (however much “security” it provides) for newcomers to see “Ah it will work along with my Winslows”.

I also think this is something that release engineering teams could do to provide a better welcoming experience to new users for common newer hardware even if its a seperate image to the standard one.

What are your thoughts on this ?

Edit: I swear x is next to c on keyboard lmao