On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:52:52 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Oh, tremendously. But they're still a PITA compared to Windows'
>>> explorer, methinks.
>>
>> Depends entirely on what you're used to.
> 
> Not /entirely/, no. Many things are subjective, but not all of them.

When it comes to user selection of tools, yes, they are.  If I find 
something easy to use, who are you to tell me "no, that's not easy"?

>> In VMware, if you "pause" the VM, VMware grabs the state and commits it
>> to disk, freeing up the memory for other VMs.  I find VMware's usage
>> makes a lot more sense.
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer having two separate buttons for these functions.
> Sometimes I just want to pause a VM just for a sec so I can use the CPU
> power for something else. So I hit pause in VMware, and facepalm as I
> have to wait ten minutes for it to trash the hell out of my HD. The
> /entire/ computer is unusable until this finishes. And when I decide to
> unpause the VM, we go through the same dance again.

Yes, two separate functions would be good, I agree.

> Also fun: Pausing a VM makes the display go away. So it's useless if
> you're trying to quickly pause the display so you can *read* that error
> message that flashes past too fast to see...

I could see that being frustrating, having been there myself.

Jim

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