The Last Big Linux Problem
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- Today I talk about my problems with multiple monitors on Linux
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I have not had any issues on linux mint regarding my two monitors that wasn't fixed with a restart.
Restart Cinnamon or the PC? Also same here
I got two 4K 27” side by side and they work flawlessly on most major distros.
My dual Dell monitors work fine. And occasionally I plug in my 47" tv. No worries. I use Nobara btw.
i read this as "2 AK 47" 💀
@@mak7t_140 yeah me too.
Hahaha I was about to comment “Isn’t that every video” and you beat me too it.
I have three near identical monitors: 27" 1080, standard size, 60fps. I have one portrait and the other two landscape all side by side, and it's been surprisingly flawless (outside of a KDE issue I faced once). Now on i3 or Hyprland, things have still been smooth, even on my Nvidia card. It's probably because all of my stuff is so low spec in today's market that I haven't had any problems. I hope developers see this video and provide special support for your set up!
a bit unrelated but does 1080p not look bad at 27"? the pixel density is kinda low.
@@ghosthunter0950 it looks just fine.
I love the fact that you're speaking about problems in Linux without fear.
Isn't it funny to think their are devs using just a laptop for their work while we all have these multi monitor desktop setups? Lol, cracks me up sometimes.
I guess I'm lucky. I have two AOC E2752VH with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti video card. Coming from Windows, I migrated to Linux openSUSE Leap 15.5 in January this year. Had to issues installing and setting up. No video issues. Proceeded with tons of tweaks and what not. Making lots of tutorials in Obsidian as I go my journey. Haven't looked back.
I had manually installed the 555.58 and 560 drivers on my Tumbleweed 1050 Ti setup only to end up having an update that went back to the OpenSUSE-provided 550 again which brought back the Wayland jitters.
@@pip5528 I just installed mine from the repository. Not even sure what version I have tbh. They work. I haven't attempted Wayland yet. Still KDE Plasma
Desktop environments work better with dual monitor setups. XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie, LXDE, even on the few occasions I used Gnome, my dual monitor setup worked flawlessly 90% of the time. And when it didn't, it was easy to change the settings. Window managers are a whole other story. In my experience, HLWM recognizes my left monitor as the primary, but when I change to something like XMonad, all of a sudden my RIGHT monitor is the primary. That would be fine if I had a 3 monitor setup like DT, but I don't. So I'd hard code the xrandr settings into the bashrc or whatever file it needed to function properly, and never had any more issues.
Also, if you go with the ultra wide, set it up like it's 2 separate monitors.
Developers with laptops tend to deal with multi-monitor setup more. As soon as you plug-in a desktop monitor into laptop, you have 2 monitors, typically with different resolutions and refresh rates.
Also, Pop OS did not have a problem with 3 monitor setup - 2 stacked vertically and one on the side - with mouse traveling properly between all 3. Windows, however, insisted on mirroring 2 monitors out of the 3 and would not budge. Damn you, Microsoft!
thank you for your hard work on creating helpful content. THIS is what the Internet and TH-cam is supposed to be about. Shared knowledge. Appreciated!
Wayland sessions seem to prefer the same specifications for each monitor while running multiple physical workspaces. Things tend to get rather buggy when one monitor is too different from the other.
Honestly, I got rid of my second monitor, and I really don't miss it nearly as much as I'd thought. Discord is just an Alt+Tab away. Even coding, I prefer just tiling my windows.
I get it but at the same time. it's nice not having to constantly switch.
but I got a 27" 1440p monitor and it's really comfortable just putting two applications side by side on it so I don't feel the need for a second monitor now. the only real issue I'm having is that some things are designed like horseshit and don't work as well unless they're full screen so I still wouldn't mind a second monitor instead.
Oh god back when I first got into Linux back in 1997-2001 time period audio was in fact my major headache!
Yes! I have been using one wide for some time . Two wide monitors on two different desktop computers and life is good
You are certainly not wrong about multi monitor support being crap. Coming over from windows this is a major problem I have a standard 1080P horizontal monitor (Primary) and one left pane 1080P monitor that I use for "document reading" (Secondary) both are 60hz. The refresh rate can not be set individually and trying to read on this thing is crap because it is flipped and used as a long monitor, letters are ghosting like crap... Not only that if I use fractional scaling on that screen to make things more readable, then the fractional scaling is carried over to the other monitor as well not only that but you can not set the refresh rate for the monitors individually I've tried it and it sets BOTH not just one.....
I have had no issues with 3x 1080p monitors on KDE, each with different Hz, 10bit, 12bit, 8bit color, ICC profiles, HDMI, and DisplayPort. Adaptive sync on 2 of the 3, and one of them is even setup as portrait. Wayland on NVIDIA as well; not sure why it's so buggy for you, Matt. I hope you find a solution soon!
It's not complaining when these are legit PITA issues. Seriously...multiple monitors are a very real and very common setup today. Like, come on man! Love your point blank method...You do you man. Cheers.
A legit issue for some people maybe.. idk.. I've been fine on KDE, Gnome, Hyprland, and Sway for a very long time. 165hz 34" ultrawide, 42" 4k, 17" laptop screen 4k, and 24" 1080p monitors..
As an IT guy who has used Linux servers in a corporate setting here and there for 20 years, I figured there was no excuse for me to not give Linux a good go for desktop in 2024 (already using it for most of my personal server applications, with a full transition by EOY). Overall, when Windows 11 came out, I liked the UI polish. Over time though, with Recall being the latest load of fresh bull crap, Microsoft's focus is clearly on going the "you are the product" route with Windows. Tried various distros, but landed on Debian testing/weekly + KDE Plasma. After a few weeks of off/on screwing around, I'm ready to take the plunge and update GRUB to default to Debian. Honestly, it's been more fun than annoyance. Interestingly enough, the multi-monitor support is one of the annoying things. I think this is more a KDE thing, but the "primary" monitor doesn't really seem to mean much. My secondary monitor (the one that does not show text from the BIOS when booting) is always the one where my password is entered by default. It's where applications open by default when I launch them (unless I have the follow-mouse setting enabled). Super minor, but Windows does it better for sure. It's remarkable to me how much I've discovered that KDE Plasma and Linux in better does better than Windows. Anyway, ending the propagation of this wall-o-text. Just stumbled along your channel. Keep up the good work.
About the flickering issue: for me it helped to get rid of DisplayPort daisy-chains and to buy higher quality cables. Same cables worked fine in macOS but caused flickering on Linux 6.8+
I guess that I'm lucky.
I use 4 monitors. One is 1440p@60 rotated, one is 21:9 1440p@175 and the last two are 1080p@60.
Everything runs super fine, never had any problem. And I use them for everything, gaming, Plex, productivity, browsing, coding...
The only time I had to spend on it was the initial configuration, and even that was kinda easy. Oh, and I use KDE (arch).
Yeah I almost forgot how awfull audio used to be in Linux. It has improved a lot in the last few years. Multi-monitor has too, if you ask me. I've been using Pop OS's Cosmic Desktop now for a year or two and I think it's really good. I work with 2 or 3 monitors daily, and switch a lot between workplaces with several different setups and it's fairly seamless nowadays.
I have an oddball monitor setup. I have a 55 inch 4k TV. It's stupid and way to big. But I have a huge amount of room for apps. It's not the best setup. Not sure if I would recommend it. I'm always having to move my head a lot to see everything on the screen. But it is decent and It is an option that can be an alternative to multi monitors.
It's weird, I'm running plasma 5.27 with 3 monitors 1920x1080 (horizontal, HDMI), 1920x1200 (horizontal, DP), 1920x1200 (vertical!, DP) and it works perfectly (Debian Sid). I can enable/disable them at will, move windows around. I have not experienced a single problem with flickering or anything really.
Perhaps it is an OpenSUSE problem?
Lesson to be learned: before buying any hardware, first check its linux compatibility :)
Hmm. I haven't had any issues with multi-monitor support. Maybe it's just your distro, DE/WM, GPU, or monitor.
This is what I use:
- Ultrawide 21:9 3440x1440 @ 60Hz monitor over DP
- eDP 1080p @ 360Hz laptop display
- Driven by mobile Nvidia 3080
- NixOS + Hyprland.
- Also, I sometimes connect over HDMI to TVs as well
No issues whatsoever. Maybe drop KDE or openSUSE and see if it gets better?
1. Connect all equipment when installing Linux.
2. I have two 22" Dell and LG monitors with two video cards. Radeon 550 3 GB and on-board Intel on a Dell Optiplex 3020 board. Problems only arise if Linux (Debian 12.5) was installed with only one monitor connected.
Yes, there are inconveniences, but I would not say that there are problems. At least with my equipment.
I had to break up with Mate sometime around 2020 when I got tired of using mixed-res displays and trying to do integer scaling. I had a nice 27" 1440p Pixio, and an older Dell whatever-the-crap. It sucked pretty much on any X11 DE until last year when I bought a second 27" Pixio 277. Coming home to Mate wasn't without its own complications because Picom and Marco can be goofy with tearing and nvidia, but ultimately I'm glad to be back.
My number of monitors is equal to my relationship status.
Oh, I thoght you were goig to discuss about some Big Linux problem, the distro lol
You tricked me right there 😂
ive been on ubuntu for the best part of the past 20 years, a pc 3 monitors, ultra wide 2k 2x 4k flipped on portrait and other with ultrawide 2k and 1 4k portrait, the 3 mons has radeon6950 the 2 has rtx3070 0 issue ever, i went from gnome 2 to unity when ubuntu swapped and back to gnome when they swapped again.. 100% xorg
vertical 1080p 60hz right next to my main gsync 144hz ultrawide on linux mint cinnamon even with a nvidia card. Everything including gaming works fine.
My Acer Nitro 5 with a 3050 Ti Mobile running CachyOS has a weird issue with external monitors where for some reason it will say there's no signal when selecting the full 144 Hz but it will let me choose 119.88 just fine even though it's a 144 Hz monitor and has no issues with the HP 8200 Elite running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and a 1050 Ti. X11 and Wayland made no difference nor did swapping out Nvidia drivers. I remember late last year on the same laptop when Wayland would be sluggish on external monitors and X11 would be sluggish on one monitor or the other but having it in dual monitor mode made both smooth. That apparently got fixed with explicit sync. I've just been using the laptop standalone in the nearly 2 weeks I've had Linux on it again and I'm just living in Linux so I don't get static shutdowns from booting back into the Windows drive. It runs very well as a standalone laptop.
It a signal from God: run Windows 11 to your second monitor, and Linux on your primary monitor. Listed to His Word.
I'm running Fedora Workstation KDE Plasma/ Wayland and have a LG 4k monitor and a 1080p one at different refresh rates- they run absolutely perfectly. (integrated graphics on a 10th gen i3)
watching this on my second monitor connected to my nixos laptop, no issues nix FTW
From reading the comments (and from my experience) you're probably the only person with setup this weird, everything just works for everyone on wayland, especially window managers, you'll probably need a very detailed description of this setup if you wanted to report bugs about it. Even on X the only problem I knew about is with multiple different refresh rates not being supported
Thats exactly the reason why i use multiple monitors for game development 1 4:3 16:9 and 21:9 monitors I have encountered some little weirdness but after a restart it usually disappears. (I'm usually on linux Mint, sometimes Arch and dual boot windows because i have to)
It is better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't. The monitor sounds like a 'heart' purchase, and while you didn't specifically say, have you tried moving to twin inputs and using it as two distinct screens? You said it was possible, would this help? I have two 24" 1080p monitors side by side, Mint seems very happy with that. If not, face up to the struggle, someone out there would love your monitor and get two standard ones instead. Great channel, moan all you like, and best of luck.
About the Monitor thing... I can confirm it being giga broken on X11 ever since, a lot of it can be attributed to nvidia though. Like the Display setup menu being janky and the monitor setup breaking when hot-plugging a monitor (I have a little kvm switch for one monitor). Also fractional scaling is giga ass on X11. Though on wayland? Pretty good except for some scaling issues that can be fixed dragging the scaling of the window a bit. Can live with that. How do I know a lot was nvidia related? It got better with every driver update and I have some old Thinkpad to crosstest. My main PC has 2x4k and 2x2k Monitors.
I also kinda noticed that KDE seems to neglect x11 development in favor of improving Wayland. X11 seems to regress even. Like some weird kscreenlocker bug...
Also I doubt that the devs have only one Monitor?! How do you know this? I often see devs who have an extra monitor turned 90 degress to see more code at once.
Also I had some iddues on Win10 in the beginning with Multiple monitors, fractional scaling was pretty crappy for some years.
I have a 49" monitor with a 5120x1440 + 22" 4k monitor + a vertical oriented 18" 1080x1920. Using Plasma 6.1 + Nvidia (560 driver) + Wayland + Fractional Scaling and not having really any issues.
Linux's problem is shoving software in production cases when the software is still in the oven and not ready. I've switched to more conservative operating systems because of it
I have LG DualUp as single monitor for Ubuntu 22.04 laptop. Works fine but sometimes after waking from sleep it does not recognise resolution and I get stretched Full HD. To fix it I have to disconnect and connect USB-C. Still love this monitor, great aspect ratio for coding.
Tbh, I haven't had much issues with multiple monitors on Plasma for the last couple of years, and especially since the move to Plasma 6. Matt should actually become a coder.
I have 48", 32" 4K, and 23" portrait and the only problems I've had are either cables that turned out to be bad or my work machine which has an nvidia GPU. I'm a stumpwm user so I'm well outside the "well tested" paths.
I’m using Linux the amount of monitors depends on the desktop environment or Wyndham manager I’m using at the time right now. I’m using gnome so I’m only using one monitor, but if I were to go back to qtile or xmonad I would use two monitors
I have two monitors of different sizes and a Thinkpad with docking station (Fedora/Gnome). I leave the laptop open to have a third monitor. All work well together until I undock and re-dock the laptop - the system doesn’t remember my display configuration and I have to mess with the display settings again. I’m sure the solution is out there, but it should work properly out of the box. I’ll search for the solution sometime this weekend.
Hyprland + 3 monitor setup, here.
Never had any issues. At all.
Maybe y'all won't either, idk.
Hah this wasn't like every other video on your channel this time the video was 13 minutes!
I don't know how I lucked out at this, but of the several computers I've got I have virtually no monitor issues anymore. I do sometimes encounter a bug where, when fullscreening an app, it goes to my leftmost display instead of my main display/the one it's on but it's very rare for me. I've been real lucky with this though, I realize that, and it was an issue for me in the past.
For context: Arch with KDE was an issue in the past is what gave me issues. Currently though, I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon on main system (three displays in a weird configuration) and Fedora 40 GNOME on everything else (although those systems are single display).
I have two monitors with different resolutions and sizes, using i3 and arch and it was a pain in the ass. But i found a script that works and have it in my i3 config and now it works great, no issues
You found a solution to the problem. How long did it take you to find the script? Did you have to modify it to work with your setup?
So what if you start streaming of studying programming, and become a dev?
I know this pain.
I have a 34" 1440p ultra wide monitor and an 15" 4K smaller bellow on the center of the bigger one.
Ideally the uw is at 100% scale and the smaller one at 200% to be comfortable to my eyes
O Windows (10 and 11) no major issues. Only if you try to move the app from one to another there's some scalling miss behaviors until you have the complete window on single monitor
On Mac OS was until now the best experience. The window scales automatically even when moving from one display to another and if you leave it in the middle it only shows in a single monitor.
O Linux I tried Fedora with Wayland and it worked wellish with different scales but audio from my Nvidia GPU (display port) was not working. I installed the driver and now audio works and Wayland does is sluggish
Then I tried Ubuntu with xorg and driver + audio works well, but I can scale the monitors individually. I have the 15" at 1080p resolution and it is garbage because everything looks unfocused.
I even considered take off the monitor but it is useful, specifically when I'm working (my company issued me the Mac I mentioned before)
I don't know what the problems were with pipewire, but for me with HDMI audio via headphones, the audio is crisp and clear in the morning. But later in the afternoon/evening the sound gets all dirty with popping buzzing etc. It appears to be the time that pipewire/OS has been up that things get worse. I switch off the PC each night. Anyone else had issues like that recently?
I use 3 monitors daily without issues both on Xorg and Wayland. Sometimes one with different resolution than others. So issue is not with multiple monitors
I have a 24" left monitor and dual 27" monitors stacked on top each other... completely useless in linux. I've considered heavily bailing on this setup for an ultrawide.
I recently got my hands onto using linux distro not as a server, and i went arch + hyprland. I could not get my weird 2 monitor set up to work in 6 days, i blamed myself on it, but in the end it just ended up being not really my problem lol. Also regarding audio - my mic was way way quieter on linux
Pipewire is still broken for me - crackling sound, complete media shutdown (no sound, videos stop playing if audio isn't muted - yes the mute button becomes a "play" button) and it is extremely annoying
Well, maybe just deal with the mess of wires and plug it in as 2 monitors.
I've had really weird issues with KDE. When my monitors wake up from sleep the "main" monitor seems to like shuffle between left and right so I never know where my taskbar is gunna end up between sessions. Another issue was one would just "disappear" cause the monitor program would like clone them into a single(?) monitor and I had to drag it left or right to reset.
it just werks*
*numerous exceptions apply
it's even more shit if you've got multimonitor AND variable refreshrate. you can have one or the other. sure it'll recognize and say it's turned on, but you load up a game and check the monitors overlay and whoop, it's not varying at all.
and you're not wrong, windows multimonitor support is worlds ahead, arbitrary resolutions, refreshrates, technologies, and positions and it all just goes.
i have not experienced issues with an amd gpu, river, and kanshi. i have 3 different resolutions and refresh rates with vrr
I watched this on my 2nd monitor on linux
I've legit never had an issue with multi monitors w/ kde on arch. I have 3 monitors, 2 1080p and 1 2k. Only issue i have is monitor power cycling when sleeping screen because i cannot disable the input scan on the 2 1080p.
At least linux isn't behind with this compared to windows I dual boot windows and it's actually worse in windows 11 than plasma at least for me but both are terrible it's ridiculous how often I have to fully restart my PC because something stupid is happening. Portrait monitors seem to be particularly bad. Windows used to be better with multiple monitors you're not crazy but it has gone downhill big time.
Oh Dude right now I am struggling in getting my dock d6000 to work as it does on windows without problems. Sound is still passable
I have 3 monitors of 2 different sizes and two graphic cards, nvidia and intel, and never had any problems with any distro.
do you have nvidia gpu? i feel like it might be a nvidia problem
when i boot into fedora on my dualboot laptop i dont see any problem with it since i sign the nvidia driver for secure boot ! so i am just lucky ? or dual monitor have gone better on linux ?
personally i havent had problems with multi-monitor on arch and opensuse though i usually use desktop enviroments when i use window managers it gets a little more dodgy though can be fixed with some startup scripts though still sometimes fail i guess thats just how linux is lol
I hate that Linux also defaults my monitor to 60hz.
My monitor is 75hz and when I run a game with it in 60hz it starts flickering. It took me quite a while to find out this is the problem and was quite grumpy that it was this simple. Im not a fan of windows but windows auto detection for monitors is just better.
27 inch is the perfect size, for me. 1920x1080. Not curved, I hate curved. It looks stupid.
If you can sell it for a relatively good price - then why not? then you can buy a new and better supported monitor, that will work with Linux? Just an idea.
Matt,
Just deal with it. Sell the monitor and buy something closer to your other monitors. It was a horrible buy for someone who is suppose to be an experienced LInux user. Combining monitors with disparate specifications can cause problems. Find out what works in a three monitor setup on Linux and use them. Be proactive.
As I recall, the MAIN thing is that you are not just dealing with "multiple monitors", lots of us have multiple monitors. You are SPECIFICALLY dealing with multiple monitors that have widely DIFFERENT resolutions. That is much more of a very uncommon config. Most people do it with multiple of the same monitor or at least of the same resolution, eg a pair of 1080s or 1440s. SO, saying "multiple monitor" support on Linux is broken, just because it does not work for your very small edge case, is probably not quite as fair or what others may have experienced.
I do have that use case. (Two 4k 144 hz monitors and a 21 : 9 1440p 175 hz QD-OLED monitor.) XOrg could never handle it well. Wayland can.
@milohoffman Hmmm. How would you react to: ... "you are SPECIFICALLY dealing with (insert name of any browser other than Chrome/Firefox) ... so you shouldn't complain about webpages not working for you given that edge case." Or use the same statement for peripherals that sell
I don't know a single person who owns 2 of the same monitors with same resolutions. It's very common where I live that people will use their old crappy monitor as a second monitor. Xorg can't handle these at all, and it is a problem. That is because Xorg takes all monitors you have as if it was a single monitor, and then can't set things up higher than what the crappiest monitor in the stack is, very very simply put. It's very wrong to think that people will never have mismatched monitor setup and that there's 1 in 1000 people who do.
I have an ultrawide 100hz, for work, and if I wanted to have a second monitor it would be my old 10yo crappy 1080p 60hz monitor. Even probably wayland could have a problem with that setup. Xorg definitely will have a problem with that.
@milohoffman274
I think you underestimate the number of people who use their laptop's screen as a second monitor while they're at home, or a tablet as a second screen while travelling.
I have 4 monitors with different resolutions and scales.. wayland does it fine. Matt just likes to complain
Incoming waffles rant.
Maybe see if you can donate this hardware to a developer you might be able to get in contact with?
pipewire is an issue, multimonitor is an issue, and tv capture cards are an issue, you shouldn't have to recompile to install a pcie tv card
Linux Mint Cinnamon is trying to copy Windows 10 it could be a smooth transaction to switch to Linux I am guilty for virtualboxing Linux on Windows 10 which is cool to experiment with Linux some of them I have to physically install to experiment lucky for me I know how to back up my system I would highly recommend you to virtualbox Linux Mint you will not regret it.
Huh? At least for hyprland, 2 monitor works fine. All hail vaxry
Same for Cinnamon, I've had little issues but that's it and also I was on Citrix when those happen..... Citrix is trash
Have you checked your monitor cable connection? )))
Multiple monitor support in Windows is good but not as good in Linux and MacOS. It's best to use one larger monitor than two.
WDYM not as good as in Linux. I've never had problem on Windows with multi-monitors. But on Linux the monitors kept rearranging randomly eventhough I had the configuration in X, DE settings etc. But yeah I also prefer one monitor, but mainly because it's easier to manipulate with and it takes less space. But thats everybody's thing.
At least try xorg cinnamon lmde 6 before you limit yourself to one monitor matt. I know you don't like Linux Mint at all but cinnamon handles multiple monitors better than any of them that I've seen
why does everyone have issues with multi monitor except me. i feel like im missing out on a learning experience
Nixos has declarative config
I have no issues with my single 40 in 5k LG monitor. 🤔 The res on this is 5120 x 2160.
well if you are using kodi you have to use pipewire at least as i know
I do have a similar monitor(*) and use it on laptop with Gnome alongside with two other horizonal monitors and on KDE connected directly to the GPU in my desktop PC.
I have to admit, I rarely use it on KDE, cause it;s my gamimg pc.
But it works on Gnome just fine, besides the fact that I can't use it with the docking station alongside the other monitors (I connect it via antoher USB-C cable). But I believe this is a limitation of my laptop.
I'm also using this setup in my homeoffice on windows. There's one thing that works better: I can use all 3 monitors. But I assume that has more to do with the hardware than the OS.
7:50 Windows actually is not any better than Gnome in handling this setup. I do have a M1 Air lying around and could test, but there's no way for multi monitor with this piece of shit walled garden hardware, which seems to be designed to only be used sitting in a starbucks.
8:25 It really isn't. On all 3 DEs fractional scaling only works in 25% steps, and on both Windows and Gnome there's the occasional necessary readjusting of the scaling and positions.
I also tried a bit of Hyprland on another testing device, and didn't run into issues, but also didn't use it for much more than the terminal and webbrowser.
9:35 I feel you. had the same thought several times regarding different topics.
As I said, I haven't exessively used in KDE, but maybe I could try to reproduce your problems.
I think this monitor is awesome, and overall really enjoy it.
(*)amzn.eu/d/e9GSiwP , I belive to have read, it has the same chip or board like the LG dual up (which I wanted to buy in the first place, but too many influencers mentioned it, so the price went up again).
Pulse Audio, not pipewire... 0:53
There's always an insane amount of misinformation in the comments on these videos. Matt is running an insane monitor. It's not event just a dual refresh rate thing. The dual refresh rate issue is solved through Wayland. I forget which monitor he has but people who are saying dual refresh rate doesn't work in linux are either using the nearly unsupported Xorg protocol (why?) or they are lying.
I'm glad I don't do multi-monitor, 3rd world country trait
i might be stupid, but why buy this cursed monitor to begin with? like, even if it worked perfectly, why?
Two monitors in one with out the space of two.
@@TheLinuxCastKnowing full well that quirky monitors are more likely to have issues in Linux. You fell for the glitz and glitter and failed to think it through. Bad choice.
In windows is worst than in wayland
Audio is still crap on linux. Compared to practically any other desktop OS, except BSD.
Pipewire is bad on debian
One answer xrandr; th-cam.com/video/lhiLWxJgiAo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=62PzvWWkRCAj9AYk but your using Wayland. So there might be a problem for you.
You are roasting the multi-monitor problem on GNU/Linux, although as I can see here, you have bought the most 'fak updt' monitor on the world. On which none of Linux devs have heard of. 👏
PS: Couldn't you just connect the second 'monitor' as a separate one?
Guess what?!?) windows has multi monitor issues as well. 😮
THAT is your last big Linux problem? Multiple monitors? I'd say it's the lack of a common, universal software packaging and installation standard. Which is one major reason for many commercial software companies to not provide a Linux version. Because nobody is inclined to build packages for a dozen different distros that then have to be maintained for years to come... while on Windows or Mac they just create one installer.
Flatpak or AppImage are steps towards that direction, but still far from perfect. Flatpak is absurdly space-wasting most of the time (on Mint, when I install XnView as a system package, it's a 100 megs or so - as a flatpak, it's something like 2 gb) and sometimes has permission problems where you need to use a special too to allow the packed application special access to some system resource - not very end-user friendly.
If the Linux distros can't pull their heads out of their arses and ever agree to a common standard, a lot of commercial software may just never come to Linux - keeping many from switching to it who otherwise would do it in a heartbeat, especially with all the shit Microsoft is pulling now with W11.
Perfect? You want perfect? You are doomed to eternal disappointment. Every OS has its strengths and weaknesses. Suck it up and deal with it.
Better yet, build your programming skills and volunteer to help with Linux development.
@@donaldmickunas8552 Well that is not the attitude that is going to help Linux to replace Windows on the desktop.
@@bellissimo4520 I think you are living in a fantasy world. Linux is different than Windows. It requires a different attitude and approach to use it effectively. The issue is that people want to treat it like Windows when it isn't like Windows. You want a widely used desktop? Use Windows.
If you people succeed in making Linux like Windows, you will end up with similar results as you've seen with Windows.
@@donaldmickunas8552 Well Linus Torvalds shares my exact opinion as he once outlined in a talk where he explained what is holding back Linux from taking over the desktop. I guess he lives in a fantasy world too. I'll never understand people like you who think Linux should be kept away from the "normal people" and is only something for the superior super-users...
@@bellissimo4520 You're making assumptions rather than dealing with what you truly know. I never said or implied that Linux is for "superior super-users". My position is that if Linux should replace Windows, then similar things will happen to Linux as have happened to Windows. It's a combination of human nature and corporate motives. IMO
Second, I welcome new users to Linux. I try to help them as much as I can. I give them some suggestions that will help them to adapt.
Third, I saw a video of Linux saying that he doesn't like desktop LInux. He is a terminal guy. How about a link to that video you were referencing? I'd love to see it.
Fourth, I do NOT consider myself a "superior super-user". I am a tinkerer who enjoys playing with Linux. I am NOT a programmer though I do write short scripts. However, I understand that my tastes and preferences do not reflect those of the majority nor do I attempt to push them on others.