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On 4/23/07, Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold at buddydog.org> wrote: > Well, personally I tried a bunch of Linux distros, including Ubuntu, and finally > settled on openSUSE. I know the whole Novell thing is anathema to some, but it > was a distro that just worked, out of the box, for me and my slightly offbeat > setup. I used Ubuntu for about a week, when things started to go wrong and > there were enough annoyances to send me back on the Linux trail. I wrote about > my quest here: > > http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000852.html > http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000853.html > http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000856.html Yeah, Ubuntu does lack a nice dual-monitor configuration utility by default. One problem is the differences between ATI and NVidia configuration settings. They each have their own options. Or you could use some generic Xorg options without the driver-specific option, and I'm not sure what SuSE does. It's definitely something that could improve in the default Ubuntu install. In fact, I'm interested in other problems you ran into so that I may bring them up for Ubuntu dev... -- Kristian Hermansen -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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