Haven't used it in a looong time, but by 2010 it was no longer that bad. My first install was 2002 and it took my a good 24 hours to get X to boot. It did cat

Haven't used it in a looong time, but by 2010 it was no longer that bad. My first install was 2002 and it took my a good 24 hours to get X to boot. It did catch a faulty memory DIM later on because the linking kept failing intermittently.