Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.437.1331414346.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
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> True. But I found Linux far more superior in terms of being usable on
> very old hardware.

There have been exceptions to that: About 10-12 years ago, GNOME (or at 
least Nautlus) and KDE were *insanely* bloated to the pount of making 
Win2k/XP seem ultra-lean.