Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:26:33 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ? Message-ID: <40F0146B-191B-4AA8-8CE2-13D7DEC0F1FD@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <98d2bb99-f2d0-004c-b342-05fbd891e9e0@qeng-ho.org> References: <CALMiprbGBaSJQUAA=1HDZAjvsVNK7dqB_5mBb5DKzV16F3hxHg@mail.gmail.com> <20201024123148.4929fb9e.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2010272340090.72530@fledge.watson.org> <20201028073644.52fed6c6@archlinux> <d6155ea1-850f-79b7-9a62-1c67c12a6488@qeng-ho.org> <20201028141745.0ad98a8d.freebsd@edvax.de> <98d2bb99-f2d0-004c-b342-05fbd891e9e0@qeng-ho.org>
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> On Oct 28, 2020, at 9:22 AM, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> = wrote: >=20 > On 28/10/2020 13:17, Polytropon wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:11:10 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 28/10/2020 06:36, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> In the end you need to read a lot of papers and decide on your own = what >>>> is "the best" for you or in your opinion. >>>=20 >>> And know that will change a few months later anyway. :-) >>=20 >> If you are lucky (and do your homework!), you should be able to >> settle for hardware that will work good for a long time, rather >> than buying something for $$$$$ that is "the best" for two weeks, >> then discovered as having faulty firmware, and break & brick >> entirely after 6 months... ;-) >>=20 >> Personally, I prefer "good for a long time" over "best for a >> short time", but for whatever you decide, the moment you make >> the choice, there will be new options for (probably) better >> choices, and if it's just "the same for less money". So in the >> end, you'll have something that works, but be angry because you >> could have had something better for less money. >=20 > As an old friend of mine remarked (~25 years ago!), if you believe in > waiting a few months to buy a new computer because a better one is due > soon, you'll never buy a computer because there's always a better one > due soon. >=20 My boss almost 2 decades ago said: you buy new computer, but the moment = you unpack it it is already obsolete. >> Researching and buying hardware is no fun anymore. >=20 >=20 > --=20 > The number of people predicting the demise of Moore's Law doubles > every 18 months. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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