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APC Mag’s Ashton Mills comes out with a critical look at the latest Ubuntu release and discusses some of the things it gets wrong. One of my pet peeves, display settings, seems to be one of the areas Ubuntu is not so great at dealing with still:

I have to come down on this hard here — widescreen monitors are ubiquitous now, and after all these years of X development (not to mention official driver support from Nvidia and ATI, though the latter are lacklustre) why does it not ‘just work’ under Linux? Five years ago this could be forgiveable, today there is no logical reason why the resolution of the monitor shouldn’t work out of the box — and if not automatic, then at least to have the option in the settings dialog. We all like to show off how Vista’s snazzy effects were already done by Compiz and Beryl before Vista was released — but at least it gets the resolution right first time.

I have to agree completely here. Of all the distributions I have tried, only Sabayon Linux was able to detect my monitor’s native resolution and configure it and my Nvidia card perfectly.

It is good to see a critical review of Ubuntu 7.04’s flaws as all the reviews I’ve seen thus far have been quite glowing. I’m looking forward to trying it out myself this week.

In any case, read the entire review here. You’ll see that it’s not all bad, however.