Comment by anthk
3 hours ago
38 there. If you didn't suffer Win9x's 'stability', then editing X11 config files by hand, getting mad with ALSA/Dmix, writing new ad-hoc drivers for weird BTTV tuners reusing old known ones for $WEIRDBRAND, you didn't live.
the anxiety that i might fry my monitor by setting the wrong scan rate haunts me to this day
The squealing noise of a monitor in the wrong rate is a memorable noise etched in my brain.