"Please teabag the web cam to boot."

There's two types of users, those who write a detailed precise technical answer to the subject, and then there's you

Kernel upgrades are very... Painful.

You know, I've been thinking about what I want my first tattoo to be for months, you've just given me a great idea

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so you never caught a team of government officials in your living room brute forcing your bootloader at 4am as you got up to use the bathroom, huh. Lucky guy.

I’m an engineer with trade secrets on his laptop. I’ve heard of dozens of people getting laptops stolen from their cars that they left for like ten or fifteen minutes.

The chances are slims, but if it happens I’m in deep trouble whether those secrets leak of not. I’m not taking the risk. I’m encrypting my disk.

It’s not like there’s a difference in performance nowadays.

It's 30% legitimate concern over a non-negligible risk of government overreach, 70% having fun pretending to be James Bond.

I mean, i do have some stuff that i encrypt, but encrypting the folder or packing it on a small partitiin and encrypting only this fs after booting makes more sense to me.

I'm still on the hunt for a desktop Linux distro that has no security features or passwords. My usage for this may not be common but it can't be rare enough that there are zero options

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Full disk encryption is something you really want to have when your computer is lost or stolen.

People are imperfect. People have left laptops full of personal and/or commercially sensitive data on trains or planes, had them stolen from cars and houses etc. Full disc encryption is a defence against data breaches especially for computers that are not bolted down. Or it might be as simple as a person not wanting the embarrassment of their porn stash being found.

Why does everybody seem to think that userspace attestation is the only use for the TPM? The primary use is for data to be encrypted at rest but decrypted at boot as long as certain flags aren't tripped. TPM is great for the security of your data if you know how to set it up.

Valve is never going to require TPM attestation to use Steam, that's just silly. Anti-cheat companies might, but my suggestion there is to just not play games that bundle malware.

I like to think that Valve knows better than to try that.

I doubt they would risk it as well, but the point is that it exists on the SteamDeck and can be utilized.

TPM actually provides some useful components to isolate encryption outside of Ring 0, which is a trust win. But any technology must be weighted against its power to oppress.

yes, the reason is to securely store cryptographic keys. even your own. It comes preloaded with microsoft ones usually, but you're free to delete them and install your own

Data encryption and decryption without entering a password is a pretty darn good reason.

the average citizen has nothing to hide therefore deserves no privacy

I legitimately have not booted into windows for years.

Sadly, I agree. I'm at the point now where as long as I'm not trying to game I can thrive on Linux. But even then I spend way more time than necessary getting things to work that do so out of the box on Windows. We have a long way to go before legacy apps is the only reason to run it.

Most people dont want an OS to be different. They are happy if it boots up and does what they want to do. It's not lazy, it's an active disagreement with the premise.

This is why nobody upgrades to Windows 10 from 7, or to 11 from 10. Security risks and lack of features aside, their OS just works for them.

These things are only a concern to enthusiasts.

Realistically windows is really good at repairing itself (or just getting it to a state where its usable again, to most users would be 'repaired').

Until linux has some sort of system like this, its just not worth the headache to 99% of users. The linux errors aren't even that descriptive when they happen, and could be cause by like anything.

Sorry but that's just wrong. Enough people simply don't even consider Linux because their needed software doesn't work + there's no equivalent alternative. And my PC/OS is not a hobby or a Ideology. It's a tool that I use to work with.

Linux still has too many issues, for example...

• Fedora doesn't provide binary drivers even if they exist, you need to get a pluggable wifi usb tool that is supported and install the repositories and configure binary drivers to get wifi working on a huge amount of laptops.
• Ubuntu does provide binary drivers but the configuration tool can just crash by itself a lot of the time and just fail to load the driver.
• Ubuntu's desktop sometimes just crashes.
• Fedora uses some strange memory compression driver to handle its paging file and this can sometimes just crash the OS entirely by itself.

These are major issues that shouldn't be issues, they should either have been fixed as a priority for the crashes or have some kind of workaround that doesn't require owning specific USBs that regular people just won't have. There's no reason for the memory compression thing either, it probably doesn't do that much for performance overall but random hard-locks are a huge negative. Linux is its own worst enemy on the desktop.

Which AGESA version?

I don't really know anything about that. Currently HWiNFO64 shows Microcode Update Revision A201025 and SMU Firmware Revision 56.74.0. I don't know whether those are the numbers you're asking for, or what they were while it was still having problems.

Level 5, throw computer into a volcano and go live in the woods using no technology more complex than a flint and steel.

Thank you, the best I can do is level 2 (once I learn how to solder)

Honestly, I go watch this video from time to time whenever I need a lift.

I do, yeah.