> If you are of a certain vintage, this image is burned indelibly somewhere in your posterior parietal complex: > Oh, my old friend. How it’s been a long time.

> If you are of a certain vintage, this image is burned indelibly somewhere in your posterior parietal complex: > Oh, my old friend. How it’s been a long time. Heh, basically the opposite for me. I switched to linux in 2008, Ubuntu on an HP laptop. For the most part it "just worked" and I never really needed to edit the X configs, but I do remember fiddling with them occasionally for some reason. I think it was for some peripheral or other (like a mouse, when I usually used the touchpad). Generally at the time I'd only see this backround if I was experimenting with my window manager and it crashed. Ubuntu was using Metacity at the time, and I'd switched to Beryl and was going wild with customizations. And when the window manager crashed and all I had was that and windows I couldn't move, I had no idea how to recover and had to hard boot. I'm fairly sure Ubuntu was hiding this on startup already at that time, if not very shortly afterwards.