On 5 June 2012 22:54, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@ttlc.net> wrote:
Speaking as an Arch user who is just barely competent enough for Arch with much dependence on google and Arch's most excellent wiki, I'd like to see Arch continue to do what I see as one of it's strong points.
Yes it insists on it's users having a certain level of competence. But it generally seems willing to include fairly detailed step by step tutorials and guides in it's wiki, to help those with less (or outdated) technical expertise become more competent.
So how about somebody who knows how to disable secure boot on x86 devices post a good howto in the wiki (or if that would be reinventing the wheel, a link to a good external guide.)?
AFAIK this depends on the motherboard, so a general description of how to disable secure boot is probably not viable.
And likewise, in case some Arch user should inadvertently acquire some PC where somehow the firmware option to disable "Secure Boot" wasn't there. How about somebody who knows how to add an "Arch key" to UEFI, posting a wiki tutorial for that?
Ditto.