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Old 27th May 2009
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
Probably, just like DrJ, I wish, I had never used XFree86 and PC.
I don't have quite as strong an opinion as you do in this area. Yes, I do miss the raw performance (in comparison with the mainstream), quality and reliability of both the hardware and software of those old workstations. I never found a single bug in SunOS. They undoubtedly were there, but I never ran into one. You really can't get anything like them these days -- Intel won this war.

xorg has been a mess for me too; XFree was comparatively OK, since it was very stable. And honestly, the hardware has become fast enough that all the rountine things can be done fine on commodity hardware. But my goodness do things break all the time!
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