>> I know I ran Linux (Debian Potato) on my Amiga 1200, and it was slow to
>> the point of being laughable. Meanwhile, the native OS was trippy fast -
>> faster than some of today's modern PCs, 20 years later. Then again, I
>> suspect that X11 doesn't know how to do custom trickery with the Blitter
>> chip...
>
> Perhaps we could compare Linux to AmigaOS running on a PC at
> 1920x1080 32bpp.

FWIW my pi music player runs in 1920x1080x32bpp very nicely. I put it 
down to Linux trying to do far too much stuff in the background that is 
unnecessary for a simple music player on a pi. But still, it's 
s..l..o..w which makes the pi look bad, when really it's just that Linux 
is far too bloated to run on it. Even the web browser in raspian is 
sluggish even on very simple pages, whereas the RiscOS one zips along 
very smoothly on exactly the same hardware and screen resolution.

I guess the guys who made raspbmc are attacking the problem by starting 
with a complex OS and application designed for a modern desktop PC and 
trimming it down, whereas I've started with a much simpler OS and 
building up an application from scratch. I think they're doing it the 
wrong way.

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