[torginus]

hard disagree. All security requires a root of trust. If you don't have that, how can you ensure you're not running on a mailicious hypervisor, you've not loaded any bad drivers etc.

You can only guess, and badly at that.

Because we don't have it, that's why we get crap like kernel-level anti-cheat, various 'security' solutions made by companies of dubious reputation and technical ability, just because you refused to trust Microsoft.

And even if these companies are somehow not malicious, and can be trusted, they still often compromise the stability and security of the OS.

The amount of crap Riot's anti-cheat and Crowdstrike has caused is well documented.

It's the computer security equivalent of not trusting Big Pharma, and taking a random assortment of herbal medicine coming from god knows where, and containing god knows what.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Trusting microsoft is a deal breaker.

[BlueTemplar]

And trusting Microsoft is the equivalent of thinking the Earth is flat.

See, I can make insulting comparisons too...