I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your
system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be
stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without
expert help.  As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get
friends/family to try Ubuntu.  I even tried to get my wife's laptop up
and running the other day.   The X configuration problems are currently
unacceptable.  I know this is not a Ubuntu specific problem, but the
significant work put into polishing the distro, all the nice artwork,
and cool new features are all useless when it doesn't work.

This is NOT a 0.1% problem.  I have yet to see a perfect install that
has the correct video driver and resolution.  NVIDIA restricted driver
installation works maybe 50% of the time, sometimes it asks you to pick
glx-new and glx, and you always end up picking the wrong one, turning
Visual Effects on has NEVER worked fully for me, at best it works, but
makes video playback crappy and messes up the user switcher, at worst it
makes your X session unusable or crashes your system.  The "at worst" is
the more likely case.  Dual head? Forget it.  At where I work I have 5
users I support with dual heads, NONE work without custom xorg.conf
tweaking.  The new 8.04 xorg.conf is devoid of all options, basically
saying they are auto configured, now it's even worse trying to tweak the
conf yourself.

I know I'm ranting here, but these issues are not given the attention
they need.  I know it is not the job of the Ubuntu team to fix problems
with X, but X can clearly work in all of these cases when configured
properly, it is an obtainable goal for this distro to give the user the
ability to do this.  Waiting for an Xrandr GUI is leaving Ubuntu broken
until someone else comes along and makes another crappy tool that half
works.

I was on a marathon of Ubuntu installations this week, and still head
deep in problems and complaints, so sorry about the flaming, I really do
love Ubuntu.

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