Making your Ubuntu life better

I’ve had a lot of trouble with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) on a laptop (ThinkPad 420), and I’ve had problems including:

• Not being able to use dual monitors,
• Random logoffs.

I tentatively think I was able to solve them with two easy fixes:

• Turn off Unity. You can do this in the login screen.
• In the Update Manager, under “Settings”, check “Proposed updates”.

With the proposed updates, Unity may be working; try that at your own risk. With that, I have a reasonably stable system.