Distros of Linux operating system copy from each other under the disguise of GPL license. No one ever look at the motherboards manufactured today or yesterday. The motherboards decide what drivers you need. Many did not use S3 video cards, no matter how popular. Today, not many use Nvidia; and ATI video chipsets are mostly in laptops. Intel probably manufactured more motherboards than anyone else; and they use Analog devices DSP video firmware solution. Then many mini computers use Geode cpu with its own video solution.

But they all can use VGA=791 or 792. No one had changed vga resolution to 1280x960 or 1600x1200 just to suit the monitor resolutions yet.

The argument is that system analysis has to be done by competent distros to work on monitor requirement for operating system resolution and color depth(contrast ratio) on older or newer motherboards. Otherwise your distro is just fooling yourself, not good enough to satisfy even showing the data on newer monitors.

Need we say more?