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The most recent W11 update turned on hypervisor on my machine, which I had off to be able to use Bluestacks 5. That config being on/off probably does not make that much money - yet Msoft decided to mess with my settings (not the first time this has happened in W11 and, were I to bet, not the last time either).

Why wouldn't Msoft NOT force Edge as the default browser; a company could fill their coffers hugely if they had a lot of browser market share.



Since Windows 10 plenty of security features rely on Windows actually running as a guest OS on Hyper V, like secure kernel and device guard, hence turning on the hypervisor.


Securing the software against you, to be fair.


Against the anti-virus that granny downloaded from pop-up on the browser telling her that Microsoft support found a virus.


What a bunch of corpo-authoritarian BS...

Keep the sheeple dumb and dumber, and two generations later they'll be even more subservient and docile, pleading to be milked incessantly for $$$ all of their life instead of actually learning and exercising critical thinking, and thus possibly turning on your efforts to milk them.

You can only learn if you make mistakes. They want to "protect" you so they try to stop you from making mistakes, and in the process, take away your ability and will to have individual agency. Fortunately, people are starting to realise the truth.


You mean the 1% desktop share of Desktop Linux?

Given that the other Linux kernel powered mainstream OSes are also using virtualization and sandboxing.


Last time I tried it, it also broke hybrid sleep, or possibly actually any kind of hibernate-to-disk at all. Is that still the case?




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