I heard this in regarding to Linux and X, back in the 90ies. That scared me away from Linux for quite some time. I felt confident, that I could fix any "softwar

I heard this in regarding to Linux and X, back in the 90ies. That scared me away from Linux for quite some time. I felt confident, that I could fix any "software damage" to the family PC running Windows, but I did not want to risk hardware damage.