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by snozolli 284 days ago
it makes it all feel somewhat tautological: what sort of integration wouldn't aspire to be seamless

VMware or VirtualBox running within the VMware/Vbox window, as opposed to VMware Unity or VirtualBox Seamless mode. Those allow you to have a window from the guest VM appear on your desktop just like it's a native application running on the host.

That's what seamless means in this context. It's a specific feature, not a general descriptor of your experience with the software as a whole.

A different selection of words wouldn't have lead to this debate, which I think is the point being made.

Seamless is a word with a specific meaning within the context of VMs.
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1dom 280 days ago
That's fair. I was aware of that, but I wasn't thinking of that use of the word when I read it, I thought of the other meaning of "seamless".

> Seamless is a word with a specific meaning within the context of VMs.

The problem is it also has another specific meaning in the context of integrations in general: it means low fuss, minimal setup, no troubleshooting.

A different selection of words (windowless?) would have avoided this debate.

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