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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: 1) by Frost on Monday August 22 2016, @01:26AM
Double 8-port PS2/VGA KVM (16 ports total) with an additional USB/DVI 4-port daisy-chained through PS2-to-USB and VGA-to-DVI translators. Yeah, that's right, 19 computers hooked up to one VGA monitor. I recently upgraded it to LCD with 1920x1080 which is the max res supported by the analog KVMs.
The computers all run Slackware, which still has no systemd in this year's 14.2 release. Some of them dual-boot various versions of Windows.