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Comment by intrasight

20 hours ago

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?

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.

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