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What is your Video / Monitor Setup?

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

martyb writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:54AM (#391442)

    6x LCD's on Win7pro. This station is about six years old, I have a new rig built but not configured yet. It has Linux on it, and I'm dreading getting everything up and going - it's not that I can't or that Linux is hard (it isn't! Be patient and read!), it's just that no matter what flavor you're used to, changing to a new environment after years of settling in will take time. And everyone is short on time.