I’ve been playing with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux the last couple of days. Overall I like it. It seems to have ironed out some of the flakiness of previous releases.

It detected my dual-monitor setup correctly, though I still had to do a bit of low-level hacking to get it to rotate the right-hand monitor 90 degrees to accommodate its sideways orientation. Even so, the rotated display is very slow, obviously no acceleration support for rotation, so I turned it back upright.

It also seems to have detected all my hardware correctly, including printer, scanner, and even the USB wireless network card I’ve been using, which no amount of hacking has allowed to work in Linux before now.

It’s also intelligent enough to give me access to my Windows drives on the same machine, without any manual configuration file editing like before.