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Originally Posted by IdOp
Much of my hardware is discarded by other people. Usually Linux will work on it. I don't mean to say Linux is better in ways that it's not. Here are a few of my examples:
* Intel i915 broken on NetBSD, GPU crashes and slows down.
* radeondrm for ATI Radeon RV280 9200 broken on NetBSD. X comes up black.
* a couple of old ATAPI DVD's spew errors under NetBSD and OpenBSD.
* HP g60 laptop won't boot install kernel under NetBSD and OpenBSD.
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Thank you too for having taken the time to write this
Wow, that's disheartening, be it luck or not, it must have felt frustrating
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Both of us are of course offering anecdotes of our own random experiences, it's hard to draw general conclusions from such a limited sample.
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Sure, perhaps a survey on the entire userbase attending BSD fora, mailing lists and IRC might make any sense but that way they just remain practically insignificant case reports
Maybe you could have tried FreeBSD and Illumos too,but clearly, if you don't use/like them they make no sense or advantage against Linux