obbeel@lemmy.eco.br to Linux@lemmy.ml · 29 days agoMicrosoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down11cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCswww.theverge.comobbeel@lemmy.eco.br to Linux@lemmy.ml · 29 days agomessage-square85fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.ml
minus-squarePerogiBoi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoThey don’t want you to have dual boot. They want you to choose.
minus-squarePerogiBoi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·29 days 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-squareCeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-228 days agoThat would break 90+% of installations then. And all of Azure.
minus-squarecurry@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoThat’s when they “graciously” offer to whitelist “approved” devices to boot windows VM from.
minus-squareCeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·28 days agoThen anyone running a Windows VM would just switch to a Server edition, which is almost exclusively run via a VM.
minus-squarecurry@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 days agoI have a morbid curiosity to see that happen.
They don’t want you to have dual boot. They want you to choose.
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.