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Tuesday, July 28th, 2026, 7:56 am

LLM Slop + ‘Secure’ Boot Controlled by Microsoft + IBM (TPM Booster) = Chaos for GNU/Linux

Crossposted from Tux Machines

2 days ago: Non-Techs Using Slop Run Fedora and It’s Turning Out to be a Total Disaster

5 hours ago:

Can't boot to Windows 11 from GRUB menu with Secure Boot enabled (dual boot)

2022: GNOME (IBM/Red Hat Staff) Promoting Microsoft’s ‘Security’ Scam With the ‘Secure’ Boot Sham (this developer now publicly complains that IBM forces him to paste in slop instead of code)

2024 (‘Secure’ Boot sabotages dual-booting): Good Reason to Delete Windows, Not Dual-Boot, and Call Out the Microsofters Who Worked to Impose ‘Secure’ Boot, Undermining Antitrust Complaints

Last week (FUD against dual-booting): Poor Piece From Valnet: Microsoft Keeps Sabotaging GNU/Linux, So You Should Quit Using GNU/Linux

You want to use GNU/Linux? To join 7.7% of the world? Why would you want to do that? Use Windows. Try WSL.

That is what they are trying to tell us and the companies that employ us. GNU/Linux is “dangerous”, “untrusted”, and “unreliable”.

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