Edit: I’m glad so many of you have had no issues with multiple monitors. My set up is a little unusual (3rd display is an infrequently used large tv hooked through the receiver) and is definitely solveable but will take some effort (and honestly, I’d rather spend my spare time outside or with friends, so who knows when I’ll fix it.)

  • Zink@programming.dev
    11·
    6 hours ago

    I’m another data point where displays work under Linux better than Windows, making this particular example amusingly wrong.

    This is a Dell precision laptop with a dual usb-c connected docking station. Intel cpu plus a discrete nvidia gpu.

    Using Cinnamon in X11 on Linux Mint or LMDE, works great.

    Using KDE Plasma in Wayland on Debian? Works great!

    Using Windows 10? Bzzzt.

    I think I’ve had Linux DEs occasionally forget my monitor order & rotation just like Windows would, but out of the box Windows wouldn’t even use all my monitors.

    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caOPEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t think a lived experience can be amusingly wrong but to each their own?

      My issue comes because my set up is highly unusual, the third display is an infrequently used tv that’s connected through a receiver. With a little bit of fighting I have a workable albeit inconvenient system. A fix is possible but as stated in the meme, it’ll take some effort etc.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.org
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I assume they mean that the general sense of “Switching to Linux is easy! I’m still fiddling with basic things but any day now…” doesn’t reflect their own experience, nor that of many others who had less trouble with displays under Linux.

        In that context “I have an unusual setup” is an important note: It’s not that Linux struggles with basic things, but that it struggles with some uncommon things that nobody ever built and shipped a proper solution for.

        • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caOPEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Absolutely true and well put.

          I should have said “third display” instead of “all” because my unusual setup is important context. Honestly, I’m also probably not highlighting that enough when evangelizing about it.

          To me, a big chunk of the excitement of linux is that regardless of whether linux or someone else is better out of the box, with linux, I can change whatever needs changing. There will always be some tinkering left and nothing stopping me from it!