Windows is for losers...

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Sorry to hear this Ed. What is Star Control anyways?

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Its really not much of a upgrade. Xorg was forked because a licensing issue with XFree86. A few things have been added (like really slow transparency) but you basically killed your system for no good reason. If you want transparency right now do it with your window manager.
I don't care if your using windows, mac or *nix they all need to be backed up when you do a major upgrade.