From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 28 14:22:26 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CEB447FFA for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:22:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from mailout.qeng-ho.org (mailout.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.244]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CLrPZ0gqfz4Bs0 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:22:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (unknown [IPv6:2a02:8010:64c9:1::2]) by mailout.qeng-ho.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0B12E092; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:22:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ? To: Polytropon Cc: Ralf Mardorf , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20201024123148.4929fb9e.freebsd@edvax.de> <20201028073644.52fed6c6@archlinux> <20201028141745.0ad98a8d.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <98d2bb99-f2d0-004c-b342-05fbd891e9e0@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:22:21 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201028141745.0ad98a8d.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4CLrPZ0gqfz4Bs0 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@qeng-ho.org designates 217.155.128.244 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@qeng-ho.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.81 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:217.155.128.240/29]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[qeng-ho.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.98)[-0.983]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.46)[-0.460]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.07)[-1.068]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13037, ipnet:217.155.0.0/16, country:GB]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:22:27 -0000 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. >> >> And know that will change a few months later anyway. :-) > > 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... ;-) > > 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. 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. > Researching and buying hardware is no fun anymore. -- The number of people predicting the demise of Moore's Law doubles every 18 months.