Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:22:21 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: 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: <98d2bb99-f2d0-004c-b342-05fbd891e9e0@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20201028141745.0ad98a8d.freebsd@edvax.de> 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>
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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.
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