Can you turn of the constant updates in the main distro world...after all I do that with windows and life is peachy?
By the way still running setup from 2008 as the default.... some minor updates and tweaks but its effectively still the same....all apps are sfs so they are changed independently. Having a stable working platform does mean one less thing to have to fiddle with.
yes it seems they were a PITA when the newer graphics chips were released and are still so... I fortunately grabbed intel boards with 945 graphics and a netbook with the same...they play nicely with ANY system.... anything newer would undoubtedly drive me nuts.i.e. Intel Atom still being a headache to optimize, when i tried to compile intel drivers on Slacko's kernel 3.10.2 i got a slow boot and the need to change parameters on xorg.conf to make it stable. And lastest intel drivers requirements are too far from Slacko and Slackware 14 (Mesalib 9.2.5 can boost 3D performance on N450 family, but i had no luck to compile it without gaps).
mike