I use s-ul.eu for my occasional filesharing needs, downloads are no bullshit you click the link you have the file and never had issues with it. Not sure if storage limits on the free tier are lower than dropbox though.

Oh and you get your own url prefix.

But did it install itself?

Skill issue

not j4k3 but my understanding is that the default keys are expiring soon and need to be rotated, and the rotation is up to your Mobo OEM to push out (?). I am not entirely sure that is correct, but I think it is.

Pros and cons of your own key: Pros: its your key, so youre responsible for your security

Cons: its your key, so youre responsible for your security

You can generate your own keys. Here are two PDF links I copied just now from a post I made 2 years ago here. I don't keep these white listed, so I did not check them for connecting. The first is the official UEFI overview. The second is a great guide from the US government detailing exactly how to set the keys. If that link doesn't work, pull out the document number from the link and search for it. Gentoo and Arch have guides on this. Fedora has the most advanced pre Linux init system in my opinion.

https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Secure_Boot_in_Modern_Computer_Security_Solutions_2019.pdf

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/15/2002497594/-1/-1/0/CTR-UEFI-Secure-Boot-Customization-UOO168873-20.PDF

If you have secure boot enabled, and you are using the shim from fedora or ubuntu, then yes you need to worry about it if you want to dual boot with w11.

I remember reading a post on mastodon where it was explained that no mother board validates the secure boot keys expiration dates otherwise it wouldn't boot the first time the BIOS battery gets empty and the internal clock gets reset. The post was written well and was citing some sources. But I didn't try to verify these assertions.

Pros and cons of disabling the default Microsoft key:

(Assuming you have secure boot enabled, and want the security that comes from that)

pros:

• You control your own key and have full choice over what software can start up on your computer, software cannot be approved by anybody else.
• Your secure boot security model is not vulnerable to the risk of booting 3rd party software with known security vulnerabilities.
• Sophisticated attackers with physical access to your computer cannot carry out an evil maid attack on your computer and convince it to trick you or steal your data.

cons:

• You need to have software installed to manage the key. There is software available for Ubuntu and NixOS.
• There are many buggy UEFI implementations out there that require the Microsoft key to load built-in oproms during standard boot, potentially bricking your computer.
• Software that gains root access to your computer could steal your signing key, potentially negating the benefits of secure boot against non-evil maid attacks.

Except games with shitty anti-cheat like Battlefield. Those are just unplayable.

Though on that note, I started playing a lot of DOTA 2 on linux without issue.

I switched in my 20s when I stopped caring about competitive games, and I'm always surprised at how little effort it is to do the things I want to do.

This post accurately described my life. High five brother.

So far it's working fine, yeah. No need to choose among a zillion distros someone swears is the best, I know for a fact there are first-party drivers for everything, no need to fiddle around with CLI, it plays everything my graphics card can muster, and I don't need to worry about game compatibility or whether Nvidia deigned to support my OS.

Windows has a lot of problems, but if you're just looking to play games without too much complexity... It's as close to "it just works" as I can imagine getting without switching to a console (or limiting myself to the few games that work on Apple devices, I guess).

Plus, big argument, it's familiar. You can forgive more annoyances when you're not learning something new. Humans are just lazy like that.

Sure, but it's Microsoft that allows 3rd party BS to be automatically re-installed!

you can also break out of the installer like in windows 10, and the entire os is loaded in the background so it's possible to open edge and download another os to a usb drive within the installer. very handy.