If you never broke it, my first guess would be you never actually tried to do anything non-vanilla with it. You never tried to get multi-screen resolutions in the 10's or factional scaling in the early 20's. or tried to update an ATI or Nvidia graphics driver back when it was a binary blob every other kernel with it was a bomb waiting to go off.

And the whole "deathly afraid" is straight-up BS. Your tone is not appreciated. If you come back at me with more elitism, I'm just going to block you.