[CALUG] Looking for advice

[Bryan Smith]

Is your current distro not working in some way?
Also, what desktop are you using currently?

I don't recommend changing distributions if there is nothing wrong.
At most, I'd install them side-by-side, multi-boot.

They can even use the same /home file system, with separate /boot,
root (/), etc...

- bjs

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:46 AM Wesley Wright <wwwinsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bryan:
> Thanks for the info. I am looking to switch from Fedora 28 to Ubuntu 18.x later this year. I tested the live DVD on my system and all my hardware (printer, video card, sound card) works. Not sure if my Diamond ATI USB TV capture card will work.
> Wesley
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Bryan Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> This is awesome!  I'm a huge fan of 'cheap-works-out-best' results.
>
> Even that 4:3 (or 5:4?) 17" monitor isn't really much less vertical size than those 16:9 (or 16:10?) 22" monitors.  I assume the former could be a 1280x1024, which doesn't make it far, vertically, from the 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 that most 22" monitors are.
>
> - bjs
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 13:13 Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com wrote:
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>> Thanks to all who offered advice on my quest for a multi-monitor Ubuntu workstation.
>>
>> I took a little gamble and bought a used Dell Optiplex 7010 and two 22" Dell monitors. The Optiplex has a built-in video card that has two DisplayPort ports and one VGA port. I figured that buying a very common Dell PC would mean that it's video card would probably be supported by Ubuntu, and if not I could buy an appropriate video card.
>>
>> Once I had the monitors connected with the DisplayPort cables and Ubuntu loaded, I was pleasantly surprised that both monitors came to life. No muss, no fuss! Then I set about finding Linux equivalents for all of my Windows software. It took a while but I'm very happy to say I now have a nicely equipped Ubuntu workstation. Bye bye Windows.
>>
>> After a while I got to wondering if the unused VGA port might support a third monitor. So I hooked up one of my old 17" Dell monitors and to my delight it came to life too! So now I have a ton of screen real estate to work with.
>>
>> Here's a shot of my system as it stands right now:
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>> http://hawking.stealing-fire.com/5FBA1BFE-1109-4E46-B6DB-056595FFC889.JPG
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>> It turns out that multi-monitor support was a not an issue at all with Ubuntu.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> -Wes
>>
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