[Wftl-lug] Dreaming about desktop Linux: The first community TuxZine wiki article?

[Charles McColm]

Linux is amazing, and I'd recommend it long before recommending
Windows to anyone. But there are some things that Linux isn't perfect
with. For example: when we sell a used linux box we sometimes get
someone calling us up to say "the screen is all messed up." What's
happened? They've taken the box home and plugged it into a different
monitor than we had connected to the box when we set it up. Telling
someone to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg then follow all the
prompts isn't really an option, we get them to bring the whole thing
in and fix it. I don't recall ever having the same complaint from
Windows customers (but we almost always get the "my computer is slow
because it's infected with spyware and viruses" complaint). It would
be great if Xorg had better monitor auto-detection and adjustment.