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Lately, I’ve kept the laptop booting into Vista and doing what I need to do there. Why? Well, with the way the laptop is hooked up, opening the lid fully to see is something of a challenge. The problem with Ubuntu (most likely X/Nvidia) is that it defaults to the laptop display and does not output to the external monitor. Once I get booted into Ubuntu, I can use the Nvidia settings utility to set the display, but the issue is that the utility doesn’t save the settings. I have to reset it every time I boot. Now, I’d go through the trouble of setting the Xorg configuration up, but in a week or two the laptop will be back to mobile-only status. I just figured I’d vent a little bit about it here.

Since I’m on the subject of Vista, I’ve been going through a couple of sites trying to get the best performance I can. Right now, it’s not too bad. Sometimes I forget that Windows isn’t all bad, really, but I do prefer Linux. Aero is a decent interface, and seems pretty snappy on the laptop. I turned off indexing, which helps with disk thrashing. I’ve also got Firefox 3 running here, and it works well. There’s a part of me that is pondering setting up Ubuntu in Virtualbox under Vista on the desktop. I’ll have to give it a test and see how it works. If it performs well enough I’ll keep it, otherwise I’ll go through and repartition.