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This is crazy!
What surprised me especially is that it was seemingly so simple to compile and boot a modern Linux kernel and graphics drivers for this obscure >10yo CPU.
"If a change results in user programs breaking, it’s a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs." - Linus Torvalds
That kinda sounds like Microsoft's philosophy on backwards compatibility tbh