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Immutable distros recommindation?
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I'd consider FDE more important as well (apart from some fringe use cases). But it doesn't cover all possible attacks, as unlikely as some of them are. However, together they create a solution that is both convenient and sufficiently secure, as long as you can't just intercept the keys on the hardware.
FDE protects the confidentiality of your data in offline attacks, Secure Boot protects integrity and authenticity of binaries started by UEFI. These complement, they don't compete.
After rereading my text, I came to the conclusion that I might have given of the impression that FDE and Secure Boot indeed compete with eachother. Which, as you've excellently noted, is not the case. Thank you for ensuring that others don't misunderstand this!