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posted by janrinok on Sunday August 21 2016, @09:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the over-to-you dept.

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!


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  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:50PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:50PM (#391341) Journal

    Wall Street already did it, n00b.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @12:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @12:05AM (#391349)

    And yet I don't see any wannabe quants on here with four monitors at home.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:14PM (#391669)

      Four is a problem. Do you have two on each side, split down the middle?, that would be hard to use. Do you have two on top and two on the bottom? Two of them are going to be too high to use easily (or too low and in hitting your legs) and you have the same middle problem. Do you stack two in the middle and have one on each side? You have the same height problem you had with two on two earlier (although otherwise it would work better). Do you have one middle, one to one side and two on the other? That kind of works, but the far monitor is going to be harder, and probably little used. It would definitely be diminishing returns (and heck why not just do five at that point?)

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:36AM (#391986)

        As with razors, six is the sweet spot: two rows of three.