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Well that issue is due to dumb ATi and their middle-ground cards#1- couldn't get graphics card to work right.
and#2- I still had to resort to command line to configure the most simple of tasks
isn't a command-line thingRun bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot
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We are talking about fixing the boot loader here. Not changing resolution!and isn't a command-line thing
I agree. However:The command-line isn't as scary as it is believed to be. In fact it is the easiest way to get info and set things. I mean take this forum (and well all forums) they are txt-based and it is easier to copy-paste a command and its results then trying to describe in txt a graphical thing (I mean the good old picture and 1000words come to mind)
...We are talking about fixing the boot loader here. Not changing resolution!...
That's what turned me off to linux for now. I HATE having to go into the freaking xorg.conf file just to change my damn resolution. Even after I'd installed the Nvidia binaries, I'd still have to edit that file just to run my monitor at it's native res. In the end it worked, but crap like that just put me over the top.
Actually after you install the nvidia drivers you can run the nvidia-xsettings app bundled with the drivers, and finds your monitors resolutions without having to edit your xorg.conf setting. (btw I can confirm this with several widescreen monitors)
That being said I originally felt the same way, but then one day I borked my linux x config, I was able to fix it. One day I had to fix a borked windows setup, they played around broke something no display, how I wished I could drop back to bash or command line and edit the xorg.conf without having to do a repair.......which ended up fixing the original problem but ended up borking a few other things. Having a text based config is great, sometimes the text based config is more powerful then a gui.
Most times a text based config is more powerful then a GUI. There are very few things that are well suited to a GUI. If 90% of all applications were made for the command line productivity would increase 1000%, and the number of idiots using computers would drop off 100000% I honestly believe the world would be a better place.
Neutering at birth would make the world a better place too. I'm for that. This mudball is overpopulated as it is and every one of the fucktards has a driver's license. But yeah, typing is way better than clicking. The keyboard has more buttons than a mouse - it's automatically cooler.
but then one day I borked my linux x config, I was able to fix it. One day I had to fix a borked windows setup, they played around broke something no display, how I wished I could drop back to bash or command line and edit the xorg.conf without having to do a repair
The bugger of command line is syntax. Common people don't want to learn it.
In a GUI, you have no syntax. You hit a button. Pretty hard to screw that up.
I am willing to use command line for alot of things (And do!). It is just when we are talking about the masses- command line isn't acceptable.
And some things are easier/faster to get to in a GUI vs. command line... The beauty of Windows that I like- is you have both options 95% of the time.
The new "open" drivers are being written from scratch and all there is released so far is a basic 2D driver. Eventually can be a long time.but the new open drivers still in testing should mean better drivers. So don't throw that box away yet.
Um, no.all he wants to do is use compiz fusion, 2d drivers is all he needs.
Um, no.
Perhaps people don't agree with you because supporting idiots is their job? Seriously, how can you create a professional letterhead type document with only a text based application. I have enough eyestrain problems as it is without a screen full of ascii text, thanks. Cleartype for the win, and gui's and pictures too!.I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. The position I'm in I have to fix the stupid things that people do. If people were forced to learn, the number of stupid things they do would drop off. A GUI encourages and enables stupidity.
Perhaps part of the reason is that Linux with a GUI is the exact opposite of Windows?
Windows: 100% of stuff can be done with the GUI, much less than that without the GUI.
Linux: 100% of stuff can be done with the command line, possibly 50% with the GUI.
Fact is, average Joe won't learn how to use a command line for anything, on any computer. In Linux, that's great - he won't be able to break a huge amount of stuff, because most admin functionality exists on the command line only. On Windows? He can wreck the lot.
What can't be done in a GUI in Windows?
Obviously webpage browsing- but that can't be done in a GUI under Linux, either.
Yes I meant CLI.
No pretty graphics and such like it is "designed" to be, is what I was meaning...
links hardforum.com
#2- I still had to resort to command line to configure the most simple of tasks
But how many pages are realistically built with frame buffer support? A scant few, would be my guess...
But how many pages are realistically built with frame buffer support? A scant few, would be my guess...
Fluid jrb # emerge links -vp
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] www-client/links-2.1_pre28-r1 USE="X gpm jpeg png sdl ssl tiff unicode -directfb -fbcon -javascript -livecd (-svga)" 3,829 kB
Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 3,829 kB