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I haven't had trouble getting displays working since 2007.

Fake!
All those words and none were "Arch".

I mean, they joke but inertia is Microsoft's mightest weapon.

Literally just "My computer works now, why would I want to change it?"

Incidentally, getting someone on Linux (or Apple for that matter) to switch to Microsoft is also like pulling teeth.

My internal dialogue during social events: dont talk about linux, dont talk about foss, dont talk about rodents.

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.

On my Windows laptop, multi displays barely work with any logic at all.

Last time I used macOS it pretended that displays worked fine (but they didn't).

I've not used Linux much in hotplug monitor setups but I assume the situation can't be worse.

My displays work great on Debian

My 3 monitor setup has been really fantastic after switching to Cosmic desktop. Really really loving the mix of tiling and non-tiling features too.

Tangential to OP but just wanted to throw Cosmic out there for folks who haven't yet tried it.

I use a rolling release distro (void) and I haven't had to touch my system configuration since I set it up 4 years ago.

My displays are even more stable than Windows now. Wayland allows me to throw around applications to different workspaces and monitors that would have literally crashed if I ALT-TABed on Windows.

This was me in 2003.

... And ever since.

Right!? It's wild having to turn down the babes!

Sent this to my normi friends, I’ll keep you up to date…

lol, getting all displays working is indeed my biggest worry for my last Windows PC, migrating next month. It has both an NVIDIA and a Radeon GPU, and that works great on Windows. But a quick test boot from USB did not go so well on Ubuntu, so the truth will only come out after a real install with drivers.

The trick is to buy linux-approved hardware.

For example, there are specific machines which are approved by ubuntu as officialy working with ubuntu.

Thinkpads are generaly good to use.

Consumer Thinkbooks (Shitbooks) like the 16 G7 IML are NOT at all compatible.

You gotta work your hardware around linux a bit.

infrequently used large tv hooked through the receiver

This makes it seem like Linux has a problem with multiple monitors when you just aren't supposed to connect your 80s AV hardware between TV and computer. You should absolutely expect that to either require an active convertor to your obsolete shit AND OR cutting out the intermediary. If you are going to use weird shit its on you to actually understand how it works.

Out of all the people on earth you might literally be singular person anywhere with this setup. Meanwhile everyone else is just plugging in shit and watching it work.

I literally knew a guy like that in Ireland. I swear I don't even know how I knew him, but I just remember him honing in on me to talk about fucking Linux in the pub every time he'd see me. I didn't even use Linux on my own machine! ;_;

I feel like I’ll always have to make tweaks and it’ll never truly end. But I don’t say that in a bad way because I like learning and feel it’s akin to building my computer. Putting each piece together and doing the research into it helps me know better what went wrong when something breaks because I put it all together.

With the OS, because I am learning different parts of it and making all these changes, I learn so much. I have learned so much about package managers and how to use them and their flags in this in distro hopping.

But it’s no different than Windows because many of us were doing things to make the OS work for us and not against us like tweaks to use a local account or disable shit like Copilot in group policy.

I don't know why I love that picture so much.

My wife was laughing when I showed her this meme.

I kind of miss a thing about Windows and dual monitor system. When I turn one monitor off (it does automatically every 4h), windows would keep on working without re-assembling picture for 1 monitor. Bazzite does exactly that. Everything goes black for a few seconds and does the same shit once you turn monitor off. Annoying.

Any way for me to fix this?

What distro are you guys using to get errors like that? I've been a Debian guy as long as I can remember and was so happy when I gave up using Windows for games. Windows doesn't seem to scale worth a shit, I have two twenty-seven inch monitors and one twenty-four inch monitor flipped portrait (it feels wrong but is so great for documentation); when I move a window halfway between two different size monitors the window is all fucked up, on Debian it is the same physical size across the displays and doesn't look like someone is trying to zoom in on half of it.

All that being said, my son's computer is close (he runs Arch... btw), but not perfect... I don't know if that's an Arch thing or he just doesn't care about it as much as I do.