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shim has an EFI variable to control its verbosity, you can set it to output all the gory details with e.g. `mokutil --set-verbosity true`, and on a glance there are some tools on Windows too to modify EFI vars


Handy for the 7 people in the entire world who a) knew this existed and b) bothered to change it.

(Realistically I expect that's mainly used for debugging purposes for the Shim authors.)


Why wouldn't that be the default?


Because most users are afraid of gory details. And the people who know enough to fix it are expected to somehow know how to turn on logging. It's the modern equivalent of "please contact your administrator"


The first thing the "administrator" will need is all the details. If they were printed, the person reporting could at least send a screenshot or similar.




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