I should mention - my Ubuntu Desktop boots to text-mode console, and I start X manually if I want to (which, frankly, is 99% of the time). So yeah, I'm one of the few people who still have a functioning ~/.xinitrc (; I've been using Window Maker since. Well, the 1990s. No plans on switching. I occasionally play with Gnome or KDE or Unity but meh. Always come back.