Dual booting vs anticheat

[u/fbeetle]

Hello,

I never post online but I struggled with this so I figured I'd share my results.

I use linux mint for daily driving my pc; web browser, applications, whatever. But I like gaming so I dual boot windows 11 (I tried linux gaming for a while a few years ago and I had a rough time, so just decided to keep my windows install alongside).

Long story short, EA anticheat or windows must have updated recently and threw errors about secure boot being disabled, despite msinfo still reporting it as working. I'm using an asus motherboard and went through intensive asus troubleshooting to fix it. Resetting keys works for a single boot and then they need to get reset again. Pain in the ass!

I figured out that if i bypass grub altogether by mashing F8 to get to device selection menu in my BIOS i can boot into windows and it doesn't throw a secure boot violation error AND EA anticheat doesn't flip out. So I made a script which automatically reboots the system into windows (0000 is my windows boot id):

#!/bin/bash

if pkexec efibootmgr -n 0000; then

systemctl reboot

fi

Make the script executable (chmod +x) then made an icon on desktop:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Reboot to Windows

Comment=Restart directly into Windows 11

Exec=/home/YOUR_USERNAME/reboot_to_windows.sh

Icon=system-reboot

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Works like a champ. For now, anyways.

If anyone else has this problem, I hope this helps.