You didn’t skip 2042??
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
secure boot required
Wow. Might be the first BF game I pass on even if they eventually give it away for free.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
I got it for free. 🤷♂️
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
There are a lot of good reasons for secure boot both in game and in general.
But EA have been spending the past year or so actively updating older Battlefields (I want to say all the way back to 3?) to actively block linux/proton. For whatever reason, they actively want to block anything but Windows for their games.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
Name one.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Certainly not cheat prevention if this video is anything to go by lol
cadekat@pawb.social 1 week ago
Secure boot can be used as part of a chain that eventually ends with unlocking your cryptographic keys only if the software stack has not been modified.
Sure, for most people that’ll make little difference, but it is an actual benefit.
WEFshill202@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The fuck is ea doing here though, overreaching like Mastercard. My machine is machine.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Yup. Securing your “supply chain” is a VERY VERY good thing to do from a security standpoint and secure boot is one step toward that.
pathief@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The problem is that I have not yet met a single human who enables a bios password. An attacker can simply boot the bios and disable it.