On 8/3/07, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
tweaking stuff here and there. One real world problem that most people face with Linux is with high resolutions. My friend bought an LCD and when he installed Ubuntu, he couldn't get a resolution above 800x600. He had to manually edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get higher resolutions. And this *is* a common occurrence. Call it customization / tweaking / maintenance, its all the same to me.
It might be to you, but in the real world maintenance and customization mean two different things. The former is repetitive, while the latter is a one time job.
These are common problems. I dont install bleeding edge software on my system or experiment with a lot of hardware but I know for sure that there are many more such problems. The users or the vendors dont have the patience to solve such issues. They are not geeks.
Vendors ought to, not necessarily users -- it brings them business.