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New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu
ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. "It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a limited number of colors. The failsafe mode also automatically runs Ubuntu's new GTK-based display configuration utility so that users can easily test various display settings and choose a configuration that will work properly with their hardware."
Its been over 10 years and linux is just getting up to windows 9x standards of usabillity. You had 6 years to catch up to XP's usabillity before vista came out but gnome and kde still can't create simple control panels for simple settings such as display resoution and safemode. I will be posting this in 10 years time when linux users will be crying "2017 is the year of the linux desktop" and still have silly problems that keep it at less than 1% market share.
Mod me down but I wasted six years of my life "supporting" linux but am happy with Vista on my new laptop and tux will never get near it.
You mean when can _Windows_ expect a unified program installation method. Linux has had package managers for decades, even GUI ones for simpletons.
Once mass adopted, we won't have the satisfaction to know we are running a better OS anymore ;-)
We'll all still have that satisfaction unless we switch to a different OS. What we won't have is that deeply satisfying feeling of smugness, of superiority, although that attitude is more common amongst Mac users than the Linux crowd, I'd say.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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No, if X doesn't work, you haven't configured X properly. Don't say the OS is broken...its not. Maybe the distro is ;p
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Ubuntu makes it hard enough to get to a pure cmd line as it is, now with the failsafe mode...
Ubuntu...Bringing Windows to GNU/Linux...
My biggest complaint against any form of Linux has just been solved. Tuxtards deciding that if you can't use the command line effectively, you shouldn't be using the OS at all are the biggest problem with Linux, and the biggest reason Linux hasn't made larger inroads with the nongeek community.
People are, by and large, afraid of technology. Linux is the most frightening operating system many people have ever handled, even vastly moreso that Windows ME. If Ubuntu can make itself out to be the world's first free and friendly OS, people just might use it. Until then, Linux will continue to drown in it's own ego.
Those who disagree with the route Ubuntu is taking here are only part of the problem.
How much longer do we have to put up with the ignorant bobetovs of this world? Yes, from your tiny little box that you live in where you've never seen anything but a desktop computer, the clicky mousy GUI is the be-all end-all of the computer. In fact, we understand that you aren't comfortable with anything but the interface to AOL.
For your information, "computer operating system" encompasses a lot more than your little home edition of Windows XP! Computers start in 1822 with Charles Babbage and the difference engine, and have grown today to encompass everything from wrist-watch-sized devices to IBM's Blue Gene-L supercomputer project currently cranking at 360 teraflops. They have applications in everything from controlling the rides at amusement parks to piloting the Space Shuttle. THERE IS MORE TO COMPUTING THAN TEETHING ON YOUR STUPID LITTLE FISCHER-PRICE CRIB TOY THAT YOU THINK IS A COMPUTER!!!
But we have to put up with you and your kind, who has never cracked a book, written a program, or solved any problem anywhere at any time in the world or done the tiniest speck of good to humanity in the slightest inconsequential way, preaching the Gospel of What a Computer Is by your definitions spawned from everything you could glean from the National Enquirer and the Maury Povich show and the view out the window of your single-wide mobile home, and delivered as if you were Alan Fucking Turing.
Speaking for 99.9999% of humanity. Go conduct a poll to back up those numbers and then get back to us, junior!
well, perhaps they aren't interested in "fixing" it because it's a completely subjective area, like the default desktop wallpaper or whether the trash can icon should be round or square.
personally, I'd take Ubuntu's default font rendering over anything else, with OSX being a close second, Windows in a very, very far third place, and on last place, Windows with ClearType activated which isn't just ugly as sin, but headache-inducing too. And I'm not the only one who thinks so, one of my friends once told me that he wanted to install Linux on one of his PCs specifically because fonts looked "so beautiful" on my Linux machine, specially while reading PDFs.
but then again, I wouldn't call any of the MS-created fonts "nice"...
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Look, I appreciate that you're being friendly and offering help and all but really, do you think typing in /code makes you look cool or something? Cause really, it doesn't. Just reciprocating the friendliness.
I'm going over here and I don't know why!