Should I Enable Secure Boot Linux?
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Should Secure Boot be enabled for Linux?

For secure boot to work, your Hardware should support secure boot and your OS should support secure booting. If output of above command is “1” then secure boot is supported and enabled by your OS. AFAIK secure boot is a UEFI feature that is developed by Microsoft and some other companies that form the UEFI consortium.

Should I enable Secure Boot Ubuntu?

Ubuntu has a signed boot loader and kernel by default, so it should work fine with Secure Boot. However, if you need to install DKMS modules (3rd party kernel modules that need to get compiled on your machine), these do not have a signature, and thus can not be used together with Secure Boot.

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