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What is it securing against?
Fantasy evil maid attacks that never actually happen and secondhand users
Users
It is always users.
Users are the biggest security threat to any computing system. Hackers of all flavours are childsplay in comparison.
It prevents people from messing with your secure boot keys for example, which is useful to make sure things haven't been tampered with software wise.
Considering I had to get a new HD for it, I am not worried about the software.
Not that it has any software to speak of, since it doesn't boot. Except to windows, which as far as I can tell cannot exist in a state of non-tamperedness.
Exactly as secure as if I let it soak in a bathtub all night. Software definitely not compromised.
It's mostly for businesses to lock down company computers. They can be more confident that users haven't installed certain kinds of viruses or otherwise screwed something up. For someone running Linux they installed themselves it won't make a big security difference.
There are Linux distros that can be installed with secure boot enabled. Are you prevented from installing them due to being unable to modify BIOS settings?
Yes i tried ubuntu which is supposed to have all keys and stuff. But they arent cracking tools. You still have to enter the password if already enabled.