Asking as a non-Windows user: isn't it good actually? E.g. this would make Sony-style rootkits also impossible (which makes some people twitch to this very day)

Asking as a non-Windows user: isn't it good actually? E.g. this would make Sony-style rootkits also impossible (which makes some people twitch to this very day). --- > Nope, we’ve got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today. This quote is just simply disingenuous. Forcing people to install all kind of magic kernel-level driver-imitations to be able to play the game du jour is the opposite of freedom.