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Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware
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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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I have given up dual-booting and just have a Windows VM for work things that require Windows. Less muss, less fuss and I can move the VM around as needed when moving between primary PCs.
This. And fuck secure boot. Nowadays almost any of can run VMs flawlessly.
You can even use SecureBoot and TPM in a VM ;) OVMF EDK2 fully supports both ;)
SecureBoot is fine, sucks that vendors won't add distro keys but you can do that yourself, or use the shim.
did you have to buy a windows license to do it?
You may want to Google for a dev called Massgrave.
My work has licenses I can apply for VMs when I'm keeping them for longer client work, so yes they are licensed in my case.
I wouldn't do that for my own personal use though.
No why pay money for this assholes,more over I use windows server edition which not possible to get if u are not business client and it cost 800$
You don't have to
If you only need it for 90 days before it expires, Microsoft will give you the VM for free (and if you're particularly industrious, you might write a script that then installs a load of your shit for you to run after you fire up a fresh one)
If you don't care about potentially breaking the law you can run it forever with a couple of scripts you can find on GitHub
If you don't want to break the law but also don't want to pay full price you can get a dubious but working key from sites like G2A and cdkeys
If that's still too sketchy there's the OEM licenses (honestly not worth it since they can only activate on a single machine ever)
Or finally you might feel sorry for Microsoft for some strange reason and want to go full retail price.
Basically the same experience with all options for a lot of cases, they're just happy to have users it seems
?? Can't you just use Massgravel?