@[email protected] to [email protected] • 8 months agoMicrosoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1565cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•8 months agoThey don’t want you to have dual boot. They want you to choose.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•8 months agoI’d almost bet money that in a year or two they’ll make it so that the latest version of windows cannot be installed in virtual machines
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•edit-28 months agoThat would break 90+% of installations then. And all of Azure.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•8 months agoThat’s when they “graciously” offer to whitelist “approved” devices to boot windows VM from.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•8 months agoThen anyone running a Windows VM would just switch to a Server edition, which is almost exclusively run via a VM.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoI have a morbid curiosity to see that happen.
They don’t want you to have dual boot. They want you to choose.
Glad I chose linux then.
I’m going to choose a VM.
I’d almost bet money that in a year or two they’ll make it so that the latest version of windows cannot be installed in virtual machines
That would break 90+% of installations then. And all of Azure.
That’s when they “graciously” offer to whitelist “approved” devices to boot windows VM from.
Then anyone running a Windows VM would just switch to a Server edition, which is almost exclusively run via a VM.
I have a morbid curiosity to see that happen.
Yes and