The killer part here is where it says that NVIDIA and other drivers need to be signed with a trusted key too. To most of us in r/linux that's the key we added to our BIOS which allows us to compile up drivers and sign them. For me it's in /var/lib/shim-signed/mok. THat's a trusted key.
FOr an anti-cheat I think their idea of a trusted key is what they say about the kernel. They mean all the drivers need to be signed by Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian or whoever. Basically signed by someone *they* trust.
So you can only play fortnite if you want to give up your ability to compile and run your own kernel drivers at all. That's bad news for my ex_su_axb35 driver which controls the fan speed curves on my hardware, for example.
I wonder how well the Linux community will take to restrictions like this. The 'tourist' crowd who essentially moved away from Windows and on to 'Not Windows' because a youtuber did so first probably don't care. But the actual Linux community? Will any of us be running this?
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u/andymaclean19 9h ago
The killer part here is where it says that NVIDIA and other drivers need to be signed with a trusted key too. To most of us in r/linux that's the key we added to our BIOS which allows us to compile up drivers and sign them. For me it's in /var/lib/shim-signed/mok. THat's a trusted key.
FOr an anti-cheat I think their idea of a trusted key is what they say about the kernel. They mean all the drivers need to be signed by Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian or whoever. Basically signed by someone *they* trust.
So you can only play fortnite if you want to give up your ability to compile and run your own kernel drivers at all. That's bad news for my ex_su_axb35 driver which controls the fan speed curves on my hardware, for example.
I wonder how well the Linux community will take to restrictions like this. The 'tourist' crowd who essentially moved away from Windows and on to 'Not Windows' because a youtuber did so first probably don't care. But the actual Linux community? Will any of us be running this?