screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Derek Broughton]

Owen Townend wrote:

> 2008/9/27 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
>>
>> Here's a challenge for you: reformat your existing hardrive(s) and
>> install your Windows from scratch. Then install your other standard
>> applications (office, graphics, graphics editing programs, scanning
>> programs, pdf reader programs, music players, video player, internet
>> software, IMS sofware, calendar programs, etc.) on that fresh Windows
>> install. Let us know how you come out; how long it took you, what worked
>> 'out-of-the-box' and what did not, etc.
>>  Then, and only then, install Ubuntu on a second hard drive or
>> partition, and come back and tell us about your experience.
>>
> 
> Hey,
> Further to that... try something as simple as this to duplicate or
> backup your current set of apps:
> dpkg --get-selections > installed_apps.txt
> dpkg --set-selections < installed_apps.txt

Well, actually, no.  That's a truly ugly way to install software, and I
heartily recommend NOBODY follow that advice.  You'll never get rid of all
the cruft in future (every single package on the system is now marked
as "manually installed" and will not be removed if nothing needs it in
future).

> To play Devil's Advocate here though...  it is possible to do what you
> describe with Windows.
> Think of the set of disks that make up debian.. the businesscard,
> netinstall, base install (first cd) and the dvd.
> Now compare that to the OEM install disk for windows and a custom
> BartPE or nLite Windows install disk.
> It is quite possible (and simple) to add drivers and apps to a Windows
> install disk, in the same way that Ubuntu is more than a
> linux-from-scratch base system.

It _is_, but way too often ime the drivers for OEM hardware have actually
been on extra discs.
> 
> How many end users will install or re-install their Windows OS?  For
> Ubuntu to compare to Windows here it _has_ to work 'out-of-the-box'
> because the comparison will be made not to the (arguably arduous) task
> of installing Windows from scratch but to the unboxing of a new
> pre-installed system or at worst the restore process from the disks
> bundled with a system.

Yeah, but it _does_ work out of the box - on every single computer that is
actually sold with an Ubuntu OS.
-- 
derek