> Oh you have a new monitor, here's some scanline settings to put in your xconfig that may work.
I suggest you try linux again, find new yaks and update your arguments. You haven't had to mess with scanlines in over a decade. I've never done it. Heck, you don't even need to create an xorg.conf any more. And some time Real Soon™ even X11 will be gone.
Oh my yes. If you are a geek with zero proprietary software dependencies (as I am), then the Free *nixen offer the qualitatively best experience these days. I was a very early adopter of OS X when it was released (starting with the betas), and happily spent nearly a decade there. At some point the friction of Linux & BSDs decreased relative to the friction of OS X.
I remember editing XF86Config, .fvwmrc, and PPP init scripts back in the long ago, but I'm damned if I could do so from memory today.
I suggest you try linux again, find new yaks and update your arguments. You haven't had to mess with scanlines in over a decade. I've never done it. Heck, you don't even need to create an xorg.conf any more. And some time Real Soon™ even X11 will be gone.