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lol, wrong place to ask questions of such practicality.

that said, I played with virtualization and I didn't need to.

but then I retired a machine or two and it has been very helpful.

And I used to just use physical disks and partitions. But with the VMs I started using volume manager. It became easier to grow and shrink storage.

and...

well, now a lot of this is second nature. I can spin up a new "machine" for a project and it doesn't affect anything else. I have better backups. I can move a virtual machine.

yeah, there are extra layers of abstraction but hey.