Plasma anyone?

[O. Sinclair]

On 03/04/2015 15:55, bmarsh at bmarsh.com wrote:

>> On Apr 3, 2015, at 1:04 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/04/2015 22:59, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>>> On 04/02/2015 04:38 PM, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> Well I tend to tinker as well, I have about 40 years experience so not a
>>>> noob. But when it comes to my production system I "tinker" in a VM with
>>>> new stuff, especially beta.
>>>
>>> When loading a new release,  beta or not, I always use new partitions
>>> and can then re-boot to the previous system if needed.  and there is
>>> usually a previous-previous system I could use as well..    Don't want
>>> to waste the time on a virtual system.
>>>
>>> -
>> unfortunately dont have disk enough for that, I try out in a VM and if
>> not happy decides to wait until things are stable.
>>
> But.... But...  Disks are terribly cheap these days...   Like $74 for 2TB.    I have two of those drives I am using for backup. And two of them in the machine...  The backups are placed in a cheep USB external dock.
> 

Maybe where you reside that is true, not here. I am looking at around
US100 for a 500 Gb USB disk (as I use laptop that would be the option)
and I rather use that money for other things.