Actually, I'm not sure why a business did this, but the machine has an AGP video card. Unfortunately, it doesn't support that high a resolution.

I did get the standard Ubuntu distro loaded. I'm liking it quite a bit. I'll play around with it some more and see if I like it. Some questions, though:

1 - I know this card can't support 2560x1600, but when I looked up the specs, it said it at least supported something over 2xxx by 1xxx (my memory is fuzzy on the numbers). But the OS is limiting me to 1280x800. Is this purely due to my monitor, or is there something I can do to make it try higher resolutions?

1b - If I can't get any higher resolution than this (without a new vid card), is there a way to adjust the vertical size of the toolbars and other items? I know where to find it in XP, but not here.

2 - Does anyone here use Beryl? Or is that going to be one of these "don't waste your time with that nonsense" applications?


Anyway, so far I'm digging the general interface, and I love the system they've added to Ubuntu to simplify the un/installation of programs. Hell, it's much simpler than Windows. If I ever have to install something outside of that, though, I think I'll be in trouble.

3 - Does anyone have a link to a good site to get me adjusted to the move from Windows to Linux?