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Wow this one hit me with major nostalgia.

I remember hacking away at the X Config files for a long time installing slackware on my 486 laptop and some external displays in 1995-1996 and being super worried about breaking stuff.

That was kind of before you could look stuff up easily on the internet, plus you might not have had the modem or ethernet card working in linux yet either.




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