What this picture doesn’t show is that Microsoft HQ isn’t one building. It’s like 1000 buildings. It’s the size of a small city. You can drive for 10 minutes and still be at the Microsoft HQ. It’s insane. They have their own mall, their own soccer field, their own bank branches, and their own shuttle system. The amount of money Microsoft has is truly mind boggling.
You know it’s true because that dev only has one Friggin screen. No wonder multi monitor support is fucked.
“that dev” is Linus Torwalds on his walking desk.
I’m not sure what your experience has been like, but for me it’s been basically plug-and-play.
…if you use Wayland. it’s a hit or miss janky experience with some weird limitations on x11.
Actually, I haven’t gotten around to trying Wayland yet! Mostly because i3 on X11 works well enough for me already.
I mean, I literally just plugged in my monitor, then went into Arandr and dragged the funny rectangles a little.
Edit: For reference, my multi-monitor setup is literally just 2 monitors side by side. In my case, I did have to change some settings, specifically set the left one as primary rather than the right one, and make them tile in a slightly different way. But I wouldn’t say it involved any “jank” — just some configuration, same as it would on any other OS. (Specifically, I dual-boot windows 10 for some rather silly reasons, and I found the multi-monitor configuration process very comparable in terms of jank or complexity.)
This is completely untrue in my experience. My X230T has two battlestations: One with an old, square Samsung VGA monitor, and another two hours away with a modern, DisplayPort, high resolution Dell. I regularly hot-swap monitors by unceremoniously pulling it off or slamming it on to either docking station while it’s running, and even transform it into tablet mode and flip the internal display output 180° without upsetting the external display.
All of this on Fedora 38 Cinnamon, firmly running X11. No “jank” in sight.
I mean X11 is a janky mess. Wayland adds a lot of improvements (I can finally do screen-based scaling with logging out!). The software support on DE side is just missing a bit (Tho it has gotten leaps better in the last 5 years, I am now using KDE in wayland mode with an intel iGPU without issues! Hussah!)
If I remember correctly Linus uses i3 primarily, so instead of wasting 20% of the screen on UI and compensating with a second screen you only look at 30% of the time, it just tiles your windows so you can make more efficient use of the screen you have
Arch isn’t a building, it’s just a pile of the construction materials.
That sounds more like Gentoo. With Arch, you at least get the foundation with plumbing and electrical run to the site.
Is Arch like the linux version of being Vegan? ie the running joke is people using Arch can’t get through a conversation without mentioning it? I feel like I’ve see basically a carbon copy of this comment on so many posts about Linux I’m wondering if there’s an “in joke” there I am missing, lol.
@Crozekiel @produnis @RightHandOfIkaros
Nice to meet you and thank for posting this. Just so you know, I run Arch and I enjoy meat, titties and beer.
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