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.

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tonyarkles a day ago | parent | next [-]

And 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 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That 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.

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MPSimmons a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Immediately did ctrl-f "modeline" and was pleasantly surprised

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osmsucks 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember having to write XF86Config by hand.

EDIT: of course there's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/963