[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“It’s maddening. For someone who is trying make a daily use of
what is to be considered a beginner friendly distribution for the
first time, most options leave a lot to be desired for the
uninitiated. More often than not, new Linux users find that
everything works great at first only to discover that setting up
something as common as a dual-head monitor configuration requires
editing your xorg.conf file. If you are coming from a non-Linux
environment, this can be a fairly frightening proposition.“What’s interesting is that SuSE and RedHat/Fedora Core have
long since conquered this issue with GUI utilities. Unfortunately,
distributions like Ubuntu (my distribution of choice) are still
lagging behind in this area…”
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.