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Aaaaaaah! Trying to be secure sucks. My main computer has an Intel CPU, and I truly don't know what bios settings to use, but I suppose that is a moot point.
It is like delinerating over legacy bios or UEFI. One is familiar and reliable but is actually emulated, and the other is modern with a lot of usability features. I finally stopped worrying and used UEFI because it seems more reliable when installing new linux distros.
Same with SystemD. I had some understanding of why people were against it, but it always felt as much as a bias against the author than a genuine desire to keep the init system small and do one thing well, the unix way. I stopped being concerned when I learned Linus Torvalds does not give a damn about how linux distros are composed, I stopped worrying. A lot of great linux distros still use simple init systems, and are wonderful, but often I need to use software that is not in the package manager, and it always requires systemD.
Perhaps I should be a lot more concerned and principled like I used to be, only using the safest FOSS options. Realistically that would require having significantly more programming skills and maintaining my own distro just to be happy. Also, those are not my principles, I did not come up with them, nor do I fully understand or agree with them.
In the future I will avoid Intel.
MX Linux pretty much has me covered, and the option to turn on SystemD makes it the best distro I have ever used. It does everything.
One day I will sit down and finally learn how to use Gobo Linux.