Re: modern desktop update recommendations?

[Bartek Krawczyk <bbartlomiej.mail%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 17/07/2023 21:40, MLH wrote:
> The new box (6 cores) compiles a full amd64 build at about 10x the
> speed that the old Intel I3 (2 cores) did (yay). I build on the
> old Hitachi drive, not the SSD (to preserve it a little more).

Don't worry that much about SSDs. Over 7 years I only had one fail in a 
laptop (which was previously a company laptop for many years so did get 
a lot of usage). Plus they're cheap.

> The interesting thing is that two out of three hard drives on the
> old box were 'failing'. All sorts of errors reported with them and
> the os had been seizing every time I tried to compile anything
> nontrivial, which is why the upgrade. All three hard drives work
> great with the new motherboard and new power supply. Ha.
>
> The Radeon HD 5450 works good, except with Netbsd 10. It works
> completely fine with the old 9.93, just as with USB. The Radeon
> gets a lot of lines sprinkled on the screen and often goes blank
> for a bit.
>
> Would be nice to have 10 fix the problems with X display and USB
> that were introduced with 10.

It is important to raise a PR for any regression you notice with 10. I 
didn't really get many of them on my hardware.

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Regards
Bartłomiej Krawczyk