Heh .. I remember the first time I booted Ygdrassil .. it came with a floppy, and a CD. Man that was a great adventure, waiting 20 minutes on my 386-16megs for X to load. My, how far we've come .. good times, eh?
Having to fear borking your monitor by setting the wrong hz is not something I miss. The fantastic feeling when stuff actually worked is something else though. I feel I have gotten spoiled.
Just now I had to spend 10 minutes fixing the system tray icon of pidgin under kde5. No satisfaction when it worked, just annoyance.