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It's been a while since we ran a story about some facet of people's home computer systems and I got to wondering what kind of monitor setup other Soylentils have at home. (If you have multiple systems, feel free to enumerate each setup.)
For example, I run Win 7 Pro on a Dell laptop which has a Mobile Intel Core 2 P8700 Duo processor and which sports NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics. Instead of using the built-in laptop display, I have a several-year-old Gateway monitor with 1920x1200 resolution @ 59Hz and 32-bit color. I do not do any gaming, so I don't need the latest graphic card/monitor.
Some time down the road, though, I'd like to get a new computer and am thinking about a multi-monitor setup. I'd like at least 1920x1200 across 3 screens, though I'd not mind it if I could afford 3 x 4K screens. I'd like it to be compatible with some flavor of Linux or *BSD, preferably without systemd. Does anyone here have experience with that kind of setup? What OS do you use? What graphics card? What monitors and resolutions do you run?
I know there are some gamers on the site, as well. Here's a chance to brag a bit about your rig!
And, of course, please share any horror stories and/or triumphs, too!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:07PM
OpenBSD Haswell workstation, Intel graphics.
2 x Dell U2415 monitors rotated vertically (1200x1900).
The hardware supposedly supports up to 4 4k monitors, but the wallet only supports the two 1200p monitors.
I run cwm as the window manager. One screen gets its own full screen xterm (xterm -fullscreen fills the left monitor instead of xterm -maximized), and the other screen gets whatever GUI thing I'm doing (most of the time a browser since that is the universal app launcher these days).
I don't like the direction laptops have taken and have a tablet for mobility now.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:23PM
> And, of course, please share any horror stories and/or triumphs, too!
I forgot this part. No horror stories or triumphs. OpenBSD works well with modern Intel graphics. The devs actually use their own operating system, unlike FreeBSD devs. Not so much success with modern AMD or nVidia because they require a blob.
Just imagine OpenBSD as a rolling-release operating system, follow -current and everything will be up to date. Don't buy the CD's; that is an antiquated method as recently discussed on the mailing lists, which doesn't bring in any profit for the project. Appropriate that money to the OpenBSD foundation instead.