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I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago, when we edited ~~x11~~ xorg config files by hand. I will gladly pay any price in bloat to never have to touch
by encom 1y ago
I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago, when we edited ~~x11~~ xorg config files by hand. I will gladly pay any price in bloat to never have to touch that nonsense again.
- tonyarkles 1y agoAnd the perpetual underlying vague threat “if you get your modelines wrong you could destroy your monitor”. I suppose I started with XFree86 and switched to xorg whenever Gentoo did.
- frumiousirc 1y agoThat was only for fixed frequency CRTs. They were rare even when CRT was pervasive. And, yes, you could (I did) break them feeding wrong frequencies.
- MPSimmons 1y agoImmediately did ctrl-f "modeline" and was pleasantly surprised
- osmsucks 1y agoI remember having to write XF86Config by hand. EDIT: of course there's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/963 https://xkcd.com/963