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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: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:31PM
Samsung SyncMaster 753DF - best damn 17" CRT monitor ever made. Why? Well for starters I can actually dim it enough so the vitreous floaters in my eyes don't bother me. Never seen a flat panel where that isn't a major issue. And as a bonus I can run all kinds of oddball resolutions without having everything look hideously blocky. The CRT it uses is not a trinitron so it doesn't have those two annoying thick lines across the screen, but it has just as good resolution. A few other misc reasons too.
I've been looking to pick up another one of these sometime, but it seems everyone already sent theirs to a third world landfill because "old".