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saagarjha 9y ago
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX_Annual_Technical_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX_Annual_Technical_Confer...
raverbashing 9y ago
The parent comment and an answer as a mobile link are making me feel old Kids these days don't know the annoyances^W joy of configuring X11 so that startx would work (just kidding, things work more reliably today and that's how it should be, but someone had to experiment with it first)
- wjh_ 9y ago
  > The parent comment and an answer as a mobile link are making me feel old If it helps, I didn't actually exist at the time
- krylon 9y ago
  There was a certain kind of joy I felt when I had finally managed to get that beast to work. But as I grew older, I preferred things to "just work" more and more. Mandatory xkcd comic: https://www.xkcd.com/963/ https://www.xkcd.com/963/
- ajdlinux 9y ago
  Don't screw up your modelines lest you blow up your monitor! (I'm younger than the GGP poster here, but I was enough of a nerd in primary school that I got into Linux at about the time that distro installers' XFree86 autoconfigurators got you most of the way but still had to have a manual modeline configuration option in the advanced settings...)
  - dfox 9y ago
    For a long time I believed that the warning about blowing up monitors by using wrong video mode was nonsense, until I had blown one (12" mono CRT, 1024x768@60 caused quite loud bang)
- ema 9y ago
  Hey not so fast, some of us who were 5 in '97 still managed to share in the "joy" of configuring X11. Gentoo and the endless learning opportunities it provides be blessed.
- nice_byte 9y ago
  I was 7 in 97 and still got my share of X11 troubles :(
- amingilani 9y ago
  Hey, no. Just because I was 5 then doesn't mean I've had to troubleshoot a broken X11 conf. Ubuntu wasn't this smooth even when I was 13.

saagarjha 9y ago

Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX_Annual_Technical_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX_Annual_Technical_Confer...

raverbashing 9y ago

The parent comment and an answer as a mobile link are making me feel old Kids these days don't know the annoyances^W joy of configuring X11 so that startx would work (just kidding, things work more reliably today and that's how it should be, but someone had to experiment with it first)

wjh_ 9y ago
> The parent comment and an answer as a mobile link are making me feel old If it helps, I didn't actually exist at the time
krylon 9y ago
There was a certain kind of joy I felt when I had finally managed to get that beast to work. But as I grew older, I preferred things to "just work" more and more. Mandatory xkcd comic: https://www.xkcd.com/963/ https://www.xkcd.com/963/
ajdlinux 9y ago
Don't screw up your modelines lest you blow up your monitor! (I'm younger than the GGP poster here, but I was enough of a nerd in primary school that I got into Linux at about the time that distro installers' XFree86 autoconfigurators got you most of the way but still had to have a manual modeline configuration option in the advanced settings...)
- dfox 9y ago
  For a long time I believed that the warning about blowing up monitors by using wrong video mode was nonsense, until I had blown one (12" mono CRT, 1024x768@60 caused quite loud bang)
ema 9y ago
Hey not so fast, some of us who were 5 in '97 still managed to share in the "joy" of configuring X11. Gentoo and the endless learning opportunities it provides be blessed.
nice_byte 9y ago
I was 7 in 97 and still got my share of X11 troubles :(
amingilani 9y ago
Hey, no. Just because I was 5 then doesn't mean I've had to troubleshoot a broken X11 conf. Ubuntu wasn't this smooth even when I was 13.