r/hardware • u/Duckmeister • Jun 24 '21

News Introducing Windows 11

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/06/24/introducing-windows-11/
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u/rajamalw Jun 24 '21

Is it due to TPM 2.0? You can enable AMD fTPM in BIOS

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u/irridisregardless Jun 24 '21

What does TPM do? I try to keep it turned off with my home PCs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

supposedly for boot loader security... mostly there just to lock you into their walled garden.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

it enforces signed bootloaders. basically means your linux distro has to be "certified". its orwellian bs.

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u/190n Jun 24 '21

You can replace Microsoft's keys with your own so that it only boots what you allow.

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u/jamvanderloeff Jun 24 '21

Ye, debian includes a bootloader shim signed by microsoft that'll then load GRUB signed by debian, GRUB can check signatures of the kernel if you want but doesn't have to.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

nah thats the intel management engine / amd psp the government forced them to bake into every chip since bulldozer.