"Well, I must say having an OS choice other than Micro$loth seems really cool, like I'm not trapped by the system! I'm glad I've installed RedHat on this old box I had layin around. This should be fun! I'll come back in five minutes and continue my foray into Linux..."
<5 minutes pass>
"Ahh, ready to go again...just wiggle the mouse to get the screensaver off..."
<mouse pointer wiggles like a dying bug>
"oh, I must have to click the keyboard."
<click, click...CLICK!CLICK!CLICK!>
"What the #%^@? OK, I'll just reboot by pressing the ever handy Reset button."
<Reboot starts. Spiels of text flow past until...>
"Hey, what does this mean "Corrupt XF86Config; Initialization Failure"? Oh, I'll just go in to the command prompt and fix this there."
<click click,click>
"Uh, nothings wrong with this config...it hasn't changed a bit! I'll just call a old friend. He'll help."
<beep, beep, beep,beep,beep,beep,beep....ring,ring>
"Uh, hullo?"
"Hey Lloyd, it's Scott. Remember me?"
"Uh, no."
"OK, well I have this problem with my Linux XF86Config. I think the system just hosed up for no apparent reason."
<chuckle, chuckle>
"Hey what're ya chucklin at Lloyd? Find something funny on the web?"
<silence>
"So, Scott have you tried to edit the config file?"
"Yeah, it seems fine."
"OK. Have you reinstalled the drivers through the config util?"
"Uh, what?!?! I have to reinstall the friggin drivers??!?!?!"
<sigh>
"Have you tried editing the timings for the Horiz. and Sync modes?"
"Uh, I have no idea how to read that stuff, it's like in PigLatin binary or something!"
<oy, vey!>
"OK, Scott what you need to do is go to Borders and buy a book."
"Oh, is there some book that's good for troubleshooting this kinda problem?
"Yeah, it's called Computers For Dummies."
<Click....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr>
"Uh Lloyd, I think we got disconnected...."
Needless to say I have not ventured back into the RedHat zone even though I have decent Unix skills. And I'm still trapped by the system. Oh, Neo when will you come rescue us?