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I must have a thousand questions. I'm making one comment per question as that seems reasonable. Posted in no particular order. As of 2026-02-25 I have 22 questions.
I typed up all these questions not knowing there was a February AMA. I'll have to watch that later to see if any of my questions are answered there.
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The promise of UEFI was to make things more standardized and easy. Why then does this seem like such a complicated update with so many moving parts? Does it boil down to things like OEMs being ... frugal ... on how much NVRAM they install on systems or taking too many liberties with the specs?
It boils down into OEMs being frugal, yes. But not about hardware, but about developer time. I've seen this since the very first Secure Boot capable devices, that people implement parts of the spec, and they just test if Windows boots with it. If yes, problem solved. Nobody tested certificate updates at that time. Or actually testing compliance to the spec.
Same for UEFI in general - there are some (now old) devices who only boot a boot manager from the UEFI partition if it is called "Windows Boot Manager", therefore there are still Linux distros today who have an option to install the Linux (GRUB) boot manager under this name.