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intrasightyesterday at 1:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

As VMWare Workstation is now free on Linux and Windows, and allows you to create and rollback snapshots. Why not use it even if proprietary?


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Retr0idyesterday at 2:00 PM

It's a good question and I'm pretty on the fence about it, and next time I'm reinstalling things I might switch.

I do believe in the whole RMS "respects the user's freedoms" spiel, so all things being equal I prefer FOSS, even if it's worse - but there are limits.

HWR_14yesterday at 6:06 PM

And OSX. Or the functionality is free, but the name of the client might be different