> The point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware. ONE point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware. That's not what I'm using it for, though. I'm _simulating_ what would be independent boxes in production within my development environment. I don't care much about the performance, just the functionality.
The trash (Parmesan?) cans have not (yet) been abandoned by any software, and all of them are fully capable of running any (new-end) software on the market. This includes VMware. The cheese graters have all been abandoned by Catalina (except for the brand-new reissue, of course.) Most are also abandoned by Mojave, and the ones that aren't need a video card upgrade. High Sierra runs everything I need, and probably will for years. I am not too interested in Metal/Mojave, and I particularly don't like 'dark mode', which to me is a throwback to the wretched video of the 70's. With High Sierra and 5,1 CPU's I can still run DxO and VMware 10/11, and everything else I need, and continue to run older purchased 32-bit apps (like CS3 and Photoshop). At such time as it might become necessary I'd similarly upgrade my wife's 2,1 (El Capitan); her main tool is Adobe InDesign CS3, which will NOT run on Catalina (for example). If you want to do high-end graphics on a new-ish Mac, you MUST use their foul subscription ransomware, and pay each and every year whether you are doing much work or not. Profitable work or not. (Hers is non-profit.) You MUST buy new computers on THEIR schedule, and pay any and all necessary costs just to continue to use the product. You working on a deadline and they announce a new version, abandoning the one you are using? Fuck you customer, buy new software, and if necessary also a new machine, before you can continue working. You were hoping to be finished by Friday, maybe making a few hundred dollars on the job? Bwa-ha-ha-ha! This makes me livid. My wife was doing volunteer graphics work for her local symphony, on her now-dated high-end Mac hardware. The symphony management decided to 'standardize' on new Adobe, and offered to let her use their license. Well, that software simply refuses to run on her hardware, not for any functional reason but just because it's unsupported due to its age, and I'm not dropping thousands of dollars so she can VOLUNTEER her time. They didn't even consult us on this change, and now they don't have her contribution any more. Too bad, because she was a professional and has a good eye, and made by far the best-looking material they've ever had. One of the tenets of personal computing was that they'd ALWAYS do whatever you bought them to do, for so long as that task was what you wanted done. With the subscription model this is no longer true. An older computer is not just a bit dated and/or slow, and maybe missing some NEW features you'd like, it instead is truly useless. Retrocomputing in a subscription world? Not even possible. I intend to avoid ALL subscription software like the plague that it is. Just as I avoid the cloud. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
