Funny, but sort of a low blow. Virtually everything in a modern X server installation is autoconfigured based on hardware detection. On my fedora 15 box, the only content at all is the keyboard setting (because the builtin PS/2 keyboards on modern laptops still can't be probed for layout), and that gets populated at install time when I select "US English" from the list.
I've been in it twice before giving up on my Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade (worked lovely on 11.04. To be honest I gave up on trying to get x repaired because wifi didn't work either and I really don't like unity-style stuff. Nor the hidden scrollbars I can never find even though I know where to look.)
"Funny, but sort of a low blow. Virtually everything in a modern X server installation is autoconfigured based on hardware detection."
No, that's why he can be so happy. He's not bashing X itself, but the config file. Because of autoconfiguration, he hasn't had the need to go into the file for a long time.