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by yjftsjthsd-h 325 days ago
> Remember how much fiddling used to be necessary to configure x11 for your specific devices?

Er. No, I don't remember that. Are you talking about needing to make a xorg.conf once upon a time? Because that hasn't been generally needed for... over a decade? Maybe two at this point?

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Me neither, and I had my first Linux machine in 2008. That was true maybe in 1995. Of course anecdotal evidence.