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He's expecting support for high-resolution CRT monitors? I haven't seen one of those in at least 5 years. Given the limited resources available to the community
by w1ntermute 14y ago
He's expecting support for high-resolution CRT monitors? I haven't seen one of those in at least 5 years. Given the limited resources available to the community, I'd say that's definitely not a priority. The next thing I'd like to see is better support for high DPI screens, not support for a decades-old technology.
- mgkimsal 14y agoHowever... CRTs were definitely standard for the more than a decade. During that time, many of the same people now saying "everything works for me" were also saying "everything works for me" with CRTs, and they clearly don't (at least in the GP post). And I don't think anyone went out of their way to remove/break CRT support in earlier versions - it was never quite there for everyone. Essentially for me, and others I know, the trust in Linux on the desktop has been abused, and it'll be a while before I ever embrace it again as my day to day workstation (VMs and headless servers are where Linux has been relegated in my day to day work).
- pm90 14y agoThe problem with linux has always been that even if you're using the same version of the OS (kernel +userland apps) your hardware is likely to be different, and this breaks functionality for a lot of users Im not saying that your problem was the same. Im just tryimg to illustrate that a lot of things can go wrong, and it isnt (always) that other users are lying about it
- mgkimsal 14y agoI'm not suggesting that they're lying, but saying "works for me" doesn't help. What's more, if they never had to 'make' it work - just worked magically - they've never even understood that it really truly doesn't work for other people - they think the other people are explicitly doing something wrong. But no, they're not lying - it's working for them.