What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ?

Arthur Chance freebsd at qeng-ho.org
Wed Oct 28 14:22:27 UTC 2020


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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