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Originally Posted by Sensucht94
It's likely I've just been lucky, but here's my testimony:
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This is not meant to assess you're lying,but that your experience with very old hardware being unsupported should rather be regarded as an exception
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Thanks for your examples, and I definitely didn't take them the wrong way! I'm glad you've had good luck, and maybe I've had bad luck as you say.
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.
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.