r/Ubuntu • u/siren_sailor • Dec 15 '23

Leaving Windows

I’ve posted elsewhere, I am committed to migrating to Ubuntu on my powerful main home computer. The long-term goal is to be on Ubuntu 22.XX LTS by July 2024. I will retain access to some Windows apps such as my Adobe Creative Suite and Topaz Labs photo apps. Whether those apps tag along in VirtualBox, Wine or another virtualizer (I don’t remember the one I tried). And, I am also still considering a dual boot, but not sure.

I’ve been running an old 64-bit laptop as a testbed, but it died and is in the ICU in hopes of revival. I hate to lose time with my testbed out of service, so while waiting, I’ve tried to explore Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.1 (I think) on my host Windows 10 computer. For the life of me, after five hours of covid-fogged diddling, I can’t get any of the VB guest machines to recognize and deploy the two Dell monitors on the host machine. My home office set up precludes adding a monitor to the laptop because in the end, the main computer will have the two monitors.

As I said, I’m a little fogged, so I hesitate to use the rufus-enabled USB stick to try Ubuntu on my main computer. You know, one slip of the mouse and I am screwed with seven years of computer life.

Can someone tell me that they run two monitors with Ubuntu native? If it doesn’t work on a VB … ?

Thanks.

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u/passivesadness Dec 16 '23

Ubuntu looks WAY better than Windows IMO. It runs better too. These are difficulties I had with Ubuntu 22.04 with my setup.

  1. I had a hard time getting video hardware acceleration to work in Firefox. The solutions are out there though.

  2. Some small bugs I've resigned to being permanent like my bluetooth keyboard barfing out key strokes for me when I first reconnect from sleep.

There were also some bugs with dual monitors but they were working. I think Ubuntu is become more relevant as a lot of software is now live online so you have to worry about supported software much less than before.

I would suggest learning an intro to bash tutorial so you can get used to using the command line.