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Dear Parallels,
We've been together for a long time, but I think we both know that inertia is the only thing keeping us going now, and has been for a while. You were really nice at first, and I enjoyed how special you were. You enabled me to do things I hadn't ever been able to do before. At first, I was really excited to have you since you had a great reputation and my friends liked you so much. We were a great couple, but there are some things that novelty can't mask forever, and it's about time we face our differences.
First and foremost, you don't feel right for me. I ignored it at first, but your behavior is just too different from the rest of my applications. None of my other apps are so needy as to abandon me if I don't constantly have an active window open. They understand that just because they don't have my complete attention doesn't mean I won't want to talk to them at all. Sometimes I just want to access menu options without you starting a huge VM instance.
And options are another thing. It's fine if you want to start a VM as soon as it's opened. And it's okay if you want to close a VM as soon as it's stopped. I'm okay with that if we've agreed on that configuration beforehand. But if it's going to be like that, you can't tell me that our "configuration cannot be changed" once we've already started. You can't expect me to have the same thing all the time every time. Sometimes I want to do something different, but I can't talk about configuration before, and I can't talk about it during, and then when we're done you just leave! And don't even give me that crap about your memories not being big enough--it's not always about that. Sometimes I want to try a new device, or...
I just wish you were more flexible about my needs, okay?
I know you've been with a lot of Windows users before, but I'm different, and it's time you faced that. You need to decide if you can deal with my interface idioms or not, and you need to do it soon, because I'm not going to wait around forever while you spend all your time oogling that server market. Either you start concentrating more on me, or maybe I won't be so fast to dismiss VMware when she flashes her pretty hypervisor at me. I'll have you know that I've seen VirtualBox around quite a bit, too! What do you think of that? And she doesn't even expect me to pay for licensing!
I'm sorry if this seems sudden, but I've been denying these feelings for over a year now, and it's time you woke up and took a good look at my host OS, because if you don't, you just might find yourself uninstalled.
Sincerely,
trav
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