But we won't use this method directly, instead, we'll sign an existing key that allows us to install the NVIDIA drivers. You'll see an error similar to this: Nvidia kernel module missing, Falling back to nouveauĭon't panic, there is a way to get this working! If you'd like to read the full story, check out the documentation here. It turns out, that if you install it from there, it'll install fine but the module will not be able to load when you start up your laptop. It should be as easy as clicking install from the 'Software' app right? Nope :(. Now that I had my Fedora OS running, I wanted to get my NVIDIA drivers sorted. It also supports secure boot by default which is a huge win and means you can install it off the bat with secure boot enabled. I used Fedora 36 during the time of writing this article, it's really smooth and easy to use and uses the latest GNOME and Wayland stable versions. And I have to say I am so impressed with this OS, it'll definitely be my main one for an extremely long time. So you'd have all of your drivers installed but you would not be able to access the OS with secure boot switched on.

Although I love Pop!_OS, unfortunately, it doesn't support secure boot. So to start with, let's talk about distributions. You have to sign the installation with a key that your laptop knows is trustworthy. The reason for this difficulty is that your laptop needs to know that it can trust the module on boot and just installing the driver is not enough. The more difficult part is installing NVIDIA drivers so that the kernel is able to load on boot.

The title is quite a mouthful but I think it encapsulates everything that this article will outline :P I've been trying to get a Linux system running on my laptop with secure boot enabled, that part is the easy part (provided the distribution supports secure boot).

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