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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 cykros on Tuesday August 23 2016, @09:05PM
I have a tower I built a few years ago, nothing too special, with an AMD Phenom II x6 processor at 2.4 ghz, with 16 Gb of 1033 ddr3 ram, an nvidia geforce gtx 670 graphics card, and a wireless keyboard/trackball, as well as Xbox 360 wireless game controller. For monitors I've got a 50" LG LCD tv via hdmi, and a 30" svga emachines monitor. My "chair" is a lovesac sactionals couch (definitely the most expensive part of the whole setup), and I've got a sennheiser 900 mhz wireless headset for late night audio. I run Slackware 14.2, because I'm lazy, and fixing everything that "user friendliness" breaks on the other distros got old long before systemd even came around.
The tv also gets used for other things, including the occasional cable tv viewing (comcast discounted our internet if we agreed to let them pipe 12 or so channels into our home), a Wii, and a raspberry pi. I've considered also hooking up a Windows 7 desktop I found on the side of the road when a neighbor moved out for gaming or anything else I felt the need to use Windows for, but so far, I've never had a need (I prefer mostly emulator gaming anyway, along with the occasional minecraft, or once in a blue moon native steam game).