[ale] Let's Party!

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:46 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I suspect it "just works" for you because you understand how to deal
> with the minor issues much as it "just works" for me 99% of the time.
> For those who are used to it there is nothing to going and editing
> xorg.conf (or adding it when Fedora decided not to put it in by
> default)
> to resolve display issues. 

I haven't had to modify an xorg.conf file -- even for my dual display
setup -- in quite a long time.  Probably 3 years or so?  The GUI
configuration tools do the job effectively for me on my workstation, and
I find that I can (usually) focus on the work I'm doing.

There are times when I want something done in a way that is off the
beaten path, and I have to do it myself.  For example, I had to install
coreutils 7.6 on my system not that long ago, manually, so that I could
take advantage of "cp --reflink" on btrfs.  Somehow, I doubt that a
newbie would even think about using a COW filesystem, let alone manually
upgrading portions of their system so that they can use its features.

	--- Mike

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