Have diched windows in favour of linux, however.... I had to default to XUnbuntu, due to a lack of good writable DVD's* in the cupboard.
I have two problems: GUI documentation is generally written for Gnome**, my screen resolution canot be changed to run as high as
1680x1050 on a monitor - seperate, not a clone...Should I, ditch XUnbuntu in favour of - distro xx??. Am I expecting too much from the lightweight Xfce desktop and install Gnome taking a performance hit.
The machine is a HPG7000 laptop, it never moves from it's position connected to a KVM switch, all I need to run is Open Office, email and Mplab XIDE . Getting the wireless to work would helpfully free up a Cat5 port on my router
* Other Distros needed to be downloaded and burnt -after 6 attempts at Mint I gave up as I had a copy of Xunbutu on the shelf
**Yes I can use the CLI, but there is a lot of conflicting information on the www - the assumption often is a high level of understanding.
