In haste, Linux was fixed at 1024x768 resolution, which is not easily divided by VGA and its 640x480 resolution.

This has a pronounced effect on video zoom ratio and fonts relying on antialiazing software to force the pixels to line up.

Even a small thing like this, managing pixel in the framebuffers made a big bugs problem in the Linux world.

The problem is that even I want to hack Linux. And I know I will make a mess of it, unless I look at the architecture first. Then I would make sure monitor resolution can be scaled evenly to be successful*Vga is in every bios).