<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - blank screen on OpenChrome with VIA VE900" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106392#c33">Comment # 33</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - blank screen on OpenChrome with VIA VE900" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106392">bug 106392</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:kevinbrace@gmx.com" title="Kevin Brace <kevinbrace@gmx.com>"> Kevin Brace</a> <pre>I tend to belong to the camp that thinks that computers made in the past 6 to 7 years are adequate for everyday mundane tasks like browsing the Internet, and there is no need to replace them until they break. Unlike 10+ years ago, computers are not really getting faster every year. Performance improvements have slowed down in the past 5 years, and this means the user does not have to replace the computers too often. In the case of VIA, they never worked with the FOSS community closely to integrate their code into Linux kernel and Mesa. As a result, I think they inconvenienced their users a lot. All I am trying to do is to make the end user experience better than where it used to be a few years ago. Eventually, I will get around to adding various acceleration features to improve the user experience down the road. (In reply to ptouchman from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=106392#c32">comment #32</a>) > > Nobody loves old hardware...*sniff* except us 8-) > > It breaks my heart to see all of this great hardware get thrown away in > favor of the shiny new thing.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are on the CC list for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>