Looking at installing Mint in the next few days, I have been away from Linux on the desktop for a few years (due to work).
The computer it will be going on is my main work machine which has two 20" Dell displays running a ATI6850 graphics card, bulldozer 8120 & 16gb ram.
Decided on Mint after spending sometime reading around the web.
Are there any issues with any of the desktops and dual display support? At the moment I don't really have any preference towards any of them in particular.
Which Desktop For Dual Monitor Support (ATI)
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Staffy
Which Desktop For Dual Monitor Support (ATI)
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markkirby
Re: Which Desktop For Dual Monitor Support (ATI)
Any should be fine Cinnamon an Mate are reworked Gnome 3 so it should work the same on all as your ATI utility should be taylord for Gnome I cant comment on KDE etc but I would think they shold work they have all been around for a while.
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Staffy
Re: Which Desktop For Dual Monitor Support (ATI)
@markkirby thanks for the reply.
Went ahead and installed the cinnamon version seems to be working well. Only real issue I have had at the moment is that when I install ATI's drivers it won't do the monitor layouts right. Running it at the moment with the drivers that mint installed and it seems fine but I haven't done much with it yet. Had a quick search through the forums and it seems a couple of people have had similar issues.
Went ahead and installed the cinnamon version seems to be working well. Only real issue I have had at the moment is that when I install ATI's drivers it won't do the monitor layouts right. Running it at the moment with the drivers that mint installed and it seems fine but I haven't done much with it yet. Had a quick search through the forums and it seems a couple of people have had similar issues.