bob garbutt wrote:

> hi all,
>
> A mate and myself have been messing about with the latest version of
> Ubuntu,very impressed in general but one thing I find could be improved!
>
> It's very easy to hose the installation, one time my friend just ran the
> update option and it screwed up the display and he never could get it
> back to where it was, would be nice to have a decent restore option like
> windows, I'm not saying that works every time though!
>
> Bob

There is a utility called Envy which can quickly restore the display drivers
following kernel updates.

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
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bob garbutt wrote:
> hi all,
>
> A mate and myself have been messing about with the latest version of
> Ubuntu,very impressed in general but one thing I find could be
> improved!
>
> It's very easy to hose the installation, one time my friend just ran
> the update option and it screwed up the display and he never could
> get it back to where it was, would be nice to have a decent restore
> option like windows, I'm not saying that works every time though!
>
> Bob

Hi Bob,
*this* Bob is delighted Ubuntu doesn't 'yet' have the bloat windows
does, while offering help windows doesn't!

You can make your point here:- http://preview.tinyurl.com/ubuntu-poll

And can check these out.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/how2ask
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ask-ubuntu

Even delete that windows-dependency 'preview' before handing these
on to your mates.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/install386
http://preview.tinyurl.com/install64

HTH

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bob garbutt wrote:
> hi all,
>
> A mate and myself have been messing about with the latest version of
> Ubuntu,very impressed in general but one thing I find could be improved!
>
> It's very easy to hose the installation, one time my friend just ran
> the update option and it screwed up the display and he never could get
> it back to where it was, would be nice to have a decent restore option
> like windows, I'm not saying that works every time though!
>
> Bob


The standard "restore option" for Unix/Linux is the text editor, plus
the cp and mv commands.


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Bob wrote:
> bob garbutt wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> A mate and myself have been messing about with the latest version of
>> Ubuntu,very impressed in general but one thing I find could be improved!
>>
>> It's very easy to hose the installation, one time my friend just ran
>> the update option and it screwed up the display and he never could get
>> it back to where it was, would be nice to have a decent restore option
>> like windows, I'm not saying that works every time though!
>>
>> Bob
>
> Hi Bob,
> *this* Bob is delighted Ubuntu doesn't 'yet' have the bloat windows
> does, while offering help windows doesn't!

One of the things truly annoyed me about Hardy was it's propensity for
automatically 'fixing' the xdisplay whenever I customize it and broke
it. Trying to make an old S3/Trio card work with a big LCD. Never found
a way to disable this Windows like 'feature.' When I finally got an
xorg.conf I liked, had to rm several dozen automatically generated
'failsafe' xorg.conf.* (just to tidy things up in /X11 a bit.)
I suppose this would make Joe Windows user happy but it would be nice if
such helpful things could be turned off.

On 2008-07-07, clay wrote:

> One of the things truly annoyed me about Hardy was it's propensity for
> automatically 'fixing' the xdisplay whenever I customize it and broke
> it. Trying to make an old S3/Trio card work with a big LCD. Never found
> a way to disable this Windows like 'feature.' When I finally got an
> xorg.conf I liked, had to rm several dozen automatically generated
> 'failsafe' xorg.conf.* (just to tidy things up in /X11 a bit.)
> I suppose this would make Joe Windows user happy but it would be nice if
> such helpful things could be turned off.

Yes, this is very true. But this isn't an Ubuntu thing, apparently a
new "feature" of Xorg itself. It sucks donkey balls.

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