SVGA support aside, it will never cease to astound me that you can load Windows 3.x on a modern standards-supporting PC and get basic VGA working out-of-the-box but you cannot do the same on modern Linux/BSD to get a basic software-accelerated VGA framebuffer supported by Xorg/Wayland if you don't have the right drivers installed (and the correct configuration files manually set up).
(the dead xfree86 project was probably the closest attempt to making this "just work" though it had a long way to go; this approach was not preserved in the Xorg fork)
(the dead xfree86 project was probably the closest attempt to making this "just work" though it had a long way to go; this approach was not preserved in the Xorg fork)