[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 10/12/2010 08:15 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:
> The real value of Mythbuntu against plain Ubuntu+MythTV is the installer
> and most importantly the Mythbuntu Control Center. It singularly has a
> tab for graphics driver install.
>
> http://mythbuntu.org/wiki/mythbuntu-control-centre-mcc

OK, I realize that you were talking about the real value in the context 
of this specific video-driver-related thread, but I'm going to expand on 
it a bit.

The real value of Mythbuntu against plain Ubuntu+MythTV is that a team 
of dedicated people have spent a great deal of their own free time 
keeping up with what's changing in MythTV /and/ in Ubuntu and learning 
how to properly configure Ubuntu so that MythTV will work best within 
it.  While you could choose to spend your time duplicating their 
efforts, doing so places the responsibility for figuring things out 
/and/ keeping up with changes at your own feet.  And, if you choose to 
figure out how to set up MythTV on plain Ubuntu--including configuration 
of the MythTV and underlying distro--when you finish, you'll end up with 
Mythbuntu.

OK, you may end up with Mythbuntu without some of the nice configuration 
tools, but for all practical purposes, there's little difference between 
your properly-configured Ubuntu+MythTV and Mythbuntu--with the exception 
of all the time you'll have to spend to keep up with changes to MythTV 
and Ubuntu as you update MythTV or the distro or both.

IMHO, choosing to run Mythbuntu when you want to run MythTV on Ubuntu is 
about the same as choosing to use Ubuntu versus just downloading the 
source code to every piece of a system (from kernel to shells to every 
application--everything) and figuring out how to compile everything and 
put it together into a system.  All you're doing is ignoring the work 
someone else has already done to figure out how things should be done 
and doing it yourself (/and/ taking responsibility for any mistakes you 
make in the process)--it's a huge waste of time.  And, really, if you 
feel they've done something wrong, you can reconfigure the Mythbuntu 
system how you like, so...

Just my opinion.

Mike