On 01/08/2015 04:00 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
John Andersen composed on 2015-01-08 04:43 (UTC-0500):
All of this (Pointless IMHO) effort is wasted to get dual boot to work when dual boot is hardly a worthwhile thing to have any more. Its at best a miserable solution even after your get it working perfectly. I don't dual boot anything. I multiboot virtually everything. Nobody can unconditionally troubleshoot and do follow up to bug reports about hardware without using the hardware involved, or for software the same software configuration, including OS. Many things can be virtualized, but not everything.
Use a VM for pete sake, or buy another drive, and the mounting carrier for your laptop. VMs induce people to put everything on one big filesystem. There's a lot more to loose at once that way, and IMO more troublesome to backup and restore, inducing not doing it at all.
I attribute many of the bugs we see in modern software to virtualization, laziness from the apparent simplicity of using VMs, and consequent failure to test on a reasonably wide variety of actual hardware.
I have no material use for VMs even on the machines that support them in hardware. What they can't do is what I need, and what they can do I don't need. Multiboot may be old school, but it still provides utility without equal.
OK, I know virtually nothing about a VM, except what it is. But it seems to me that running a VM cuts down on the resources available on your computer. So, if your running Open-SuSe and decide you need something from Windows, now your running both operating systems at the same time with all the requirements of both as far as memory and such. If your system doesn't have boat loads of resources to start with then both operating systems suck. Does that just about sum it up? My old laptop didn't have loads of resources so I just used Linux. My new one has more memory and dual hard drives so I dual boot. One on each hard drive. At home I have twin desktops, one Linux and the other Windows. I just flip my screens [ dual monitors ] to whatever machine I want to use at any given time or split them one to each. -- “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” - Joan Rivers _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org