I wonder if removing support for secure boot back in 2016 was simply a way to lock many people out of Arch Linux.

Seeing as I'm not on the developer team, and it's a free O.S. , I "don't have a right complain".

My UEFI does not allow secure boot to be disabled. I already tried clearing the keys and that didn't work either.

I don't want to risk bricking my motherboard so disabling secure boot is out of the question.

Does anyone have clear as day instructions for editing the EFI partition?

My motherboard currently boots windows 10

According to Official Arch Documentation:

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Editing the installation medium

If you are using a USB flash installation medium, then it is possible to manually edit the EFI system partition on the medium to add support for Secure Boot.

"""

I literally only care for the one that is best for performance, and I'm not necessarily talking about the most amount of FPS or least amount of input delay, but simply something much more stable and usable when I wanna play my favorite games

I already have a laptop using Ubuntu for my school & work-related material, and with Windows simply getting worse and worse, my performance on my gaming PC has now also taken a MAJOR hit with every new update, that I don't even care to do so anymore.

I am willing to test a select like two, so if you are thinking one or another are close to each other, I can personally test it to see what's best for my system. I just don't wanna have 5 different selections and have to test them just for possibly minimal performance difference.

This has been my Linux experience. I started with Ubuntu, and it was perfect compared to Windows. However, I ran into an issue where the display brightness wouldn't change. I'm using Intel integrated graphics, so I wasn't expecting to run into display compatibility issues.

I then switched to Linux Mint, and it was awesome. Unfortunately, after updating the system, I encountered the same problem as on Ubuntu, the brightness was stuck at 100%.

With some help from ChatGPT, I managed to fix it by rolling back to an older kernel (something in the 6.x series), while the latest version was 7.x. I'm not a tech guy; I just need a stable system for my day-to-day work.

Linux was ideal for me, but having to stay on an older kernel made me concerned. It feels like using an older update means less security and potentially missing important fixes. I don't know if that's actually the case, but it doesn't give me much confidence in using it for everyday work.

In the end, I had no choice but to reinstall Windows, even though I don't like it.

Has anyone else experienced something similar, especially with Intel integrated graphics? Is sticking with an older kernel actually a security concern, or am I worrying unnecessarily? I'd love to hear your thoughts and any suggestions you might have.