I've noticed an annoying thing with the Hurd community: Most of the developers run it on virtual machines. I personally don't care for VMs so I ran it on an older machine to give it some life. I struggled getting the Xorg and X11 server(s) running due to lack of VESA driver documentation. Spent a lot of time on it. The lack of USB support drives me mad but at least it got me using my old 3 1/2in floppy drives again. Tired of them laying around. Of course, I had to run MAKEDEV in order to use the drive. I don't find the system bad, I find that the biggest current plight is qua is the lack of engineers behind it.
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I've noticed an annoying thing with the Hurd community: Most of the developers run it on virtual machines. I personally don't care for VMs so I ran it on an older machine to give it some life. I struggled getting the Xorg and X11 server(s) running due to lack of VESA driver documentation. Spent a lot of time on it. The lack of USB support drives me mad but at least it got me using my old 3 1/2in floppy drives again. Tired of them laying around. Of course, I had to run MAKEDEV in order to use the drive. I don't find the system bad, I find that the biggest current plight is qua is the lack of engineers behind it.