That reminds me of something wrt configuration files.
What always rubbed me the wrong way, for instance in Debian were the commented out examples in config files inapplicable for the configuration of the running system. I remember this for the bootmanager, framebuffer and X when setting up a flicker free boot with the SAME video mode as early as possible, networking, and file systems.
Only Mandrake and PCLinuxOS got this right, they had nothing in /etc which wasn't applicable, because somehow generated programmatically by their installer, according to the choosen configuration.
That was CLEAN, there were no useless ##commented out things
for stuff the system didn't even had installed.
Unfortunately their package repos at the time were 'clean' (meaning lacking the stuff i needed/wanted) too.
SUSE also tried this with YAST, but got it wrong often, and felt sluggish and bloated.
I can't really remember XFree86 and later Xorg crashing on me, except when pushing its boundaries wrt multi monitor and hotplugging, i guess that depends on the used hardware and the quality of their drivers?
Only Mandrake and PCLinuxOS got this right, they had nothing in /etc which wasn't applicable, because somehow generated programmatically by their installer, according to the choosen configuration.
That was CLEAN, there were no useless ##commented out things for stuff the system didn't even had installed.
Unfortunately their package repos at the time were 'clean' (meaning lacking the stuff i needed/wanted) too.
SUSE also tried this with YAST, but got it wrong often, and felt sluggish and bloated.
I can't really remember XFree86 and later Xorg crashing on me, except when pushing its boundaries wrt multi monitor and hotplugging, i guess that depends on the used hardware and the quality of their drivers?