Re:Oh sweet, MS Free! (Score 1)

And what's up with not getting two monitors going? You really have to struggle to mess that up. Maybe he's using some Acer POS monitor that is semi-defective (I've had that problem) or trying to do it under VESA emulation. If you get a $40 Nvidia card with dual heads, you can install the Nvidia driver pretty easily. If you are clueless, you can let the driver do a virtual screen and run two monitors that way. Or if you have more than a handful of neurons, you can set up your Nvidia card as two separate devices and dual monitors can be supported just like with an iMac (for proof, I've posted the relevant part of my xorg.conf file as a reply to myself with my Karma bonus turned off).

I have not found the process of setting up dual monitors using my nvidia cards easy for any linux distribution I've used. In ubuntu, I can't use the built-in video configuration to achieve this, I have to find, install, and use the nvidia control panel and play with it for a while (not too long) before I get my two screens.

I'm not claiming it's hard, but it is still something of a black magic that I would never expect my wife or my mother to be able to do, and even I hate having to do it.

Otherwise, the only reason I keep windows around is for gaming. I only have to use windows at work for about 5 minutes a week, the rest is on ubuntu.