If only I could get it to drive one of my three NICs...
Then the only remaining concern would be running JavaScript. mothra is nice but god-browsers are teh standard now.
I have always seen playing with boot.ini and aux/vga easier than messing with xorg.conf. Switching from something keyboard-driven like i3 or dwm, rio would cause some upset but it does not take much time getting used to- come on, you just click and drag. I also find acme a lot more convenient than vim or emacs and regularly use it on Linux via plan9port.