Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Nov 2008 15:02 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
One of those traditional "I'm a user of abc, trying out xyz" articles. This time, a Mac user tries Ubuntu 8.10, and concludes: "Linux has come a long way, but it's not totally ready for the mom and pop folks, in my opinion. In the two days of testing, with two occasions it refused to load the graphic drivers and I could not enjoy Compiz. I found a tutorial which taught me how to modify xorg.conf to load XGL (I suspect that messing with the resolution of the second screen might have overwritten the xorg.conf file). Even so, I'd say Ubuntu 8.10 is a fantastic operating system. I guess it may take a while to tweak an Ubuntu installation to perfection, especially for more demanding users. I will recommend Ubuntu to everyone who can't afford a Mac, are not into heavy media content creation or hard-core gaming."
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Multi-monitor mode has come a LONG way in the very recent past. So it's a bit buggy still, and not all drivers (I'm looking at you nVidia and AMD/ATI) support the coolness of xrandr. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) I have a nVidia card, and it has it's own Multi-monitor goodness that works quite well and is easy to set up. Compiz, for what it's worth, is still very picky on multi-monitor set ups.