Windows 10: Secure Boot: I am already running windows 11, but secure boot is disabled, and I cannot...

I am using a Lenovo legion I7, I upgraded to windows 11, now regretfully, when prompted by my computer. The process worked fine, and everything seemed to work without issue. Only when I tried to play a game which requires the activation of secure boot did I realize something was wrong. Now, when I go and look up secure boot, almost all the articles are about how to enable it in order to upgrade to windows 11, leaving me perplexed as to how I could be running windows 11 without having it enabled. I have been into my BIOS and tried to enable it multiple times. I can find the setting, but there i

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Windows 8 Secure Boot Feature: Not So Secure?

So Linux is switching to secure boot also? Or they have to because of UEFI?

 

Windows 8 Secure Boot Feature: Not So Secure?

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Here is a statement from a Kernal Developer at Red Hat:

I'm not sure this exploits the legacy BIOS but rather it exploits the legacy boot method on MBR drives, injecting a signed key before the OS boots, which you are correct in that it has nothing to do with Windows 8. And the simplest fix would just be to require boot drives use GPT when Secure Boot is enabled in UEFI.

 

Windows 8 Secure Boot Feature: Not So Secure?

They don't have to, as Secure Boot is supposed to have the option to be disabled in the UEFI interface. Most of the free distros probably won't see Secure Boot support. However, enterprise supported version of linux, such as Red Hat and the others that see heavy use in the enterprise world, will be using Secure Boot for sure.