My config is close to 15 years old and I’ve never had any issue with it. What are those horrific things you speak of? How do they affect me? I have no intention to migrate away unless I’m forced by circumstance.
I personally never got that point, because when you multi-screen, wouldn’t you specifically want two of the same model anyway because of color correction, fps and such? I know you can calibrate two different displays, but that will only get you so far and they’ll never look/feel the same.
I am sure there are use-cases for this, but how common is it that somebody needs this feature?
What’s much more common imo is connecting a laptop to two entirely different displays and mirroring the output and I had huge issues with Wayland in the past where it would just show half of the screen on either one, depending on resolution. Not sure if I did something wrong, but had to switch to X11 to make it work.
I think I get the point you’re trying to make, but these are hardware factors that just can’t be redeemed with software.
If you have two completely different panels, you will always have a visible difference, the only real answer is to get matching monitors (and then calibrate them, on top).
If your screens are gonna look different anyway, why even bother? I don’t get the specific use case (which doesn’t mean there isn’t one).
Presumably because some poor sods have been fighting to keep it going for you all this time? Do you think it just magically keeps working on it’s own without someone maintaining it?
It does horrific things with memory and has decades of technical dept and backwards compatibility
It isn’t great for the long term
My config is close to 15 years old and I’ve never had any issue with it. What are those horrific things you speak of? How do they affect me? I have no intention to migrate away unless I’m forced by circumstance.
Clearly you never had multiple screens with different dpi values.
I personally never got that point, because when you multi-screen, wouldn’t you specifically want two of the same model anyway because of color correction, fps and such? I know you can calibrate two different displays, but that will only get you so far and they’ll never look/feel the same.
I am sure there are use-cases for this, but how common is it that somebody needs this feature?
What’s much more common imo is connecting a laptop to two entirely different displays and mirroring the output and I had huge issues with Wayland in the past where it would just show half of the screen on either one, depending on resolution. Not sure if I did something wrong, but had to switch to X11 to make it work.
Why would I need two 32" ultrawide OLED 165Hz for? I have one for gaming, and a small 14" as a companion.
That’s the thing: you shouldn’t need to get identical monitors for technical reasons. And Wayland is much closer to that goal.
I think I get the point you’re trying to make, but these are hardware factors that just can’t be redeemed with software.
If you have two completely different panels, you will always have a visible difference, the only real answer is to get matching monitors (and then calibrate them, on top).
If your screens are gonna look different anyway, why even bother? I don’t get the specific use case (which doesn’t mean there isn’t one).
I think “i have this hardware and want to utilize it optimally” is peak Linux.
Actually I have ! When I started this setup all I had was a bunch of reclaimed screens and the specs were all over the place.
Presumably because some poor sods have been fighting to keep it going for you all this time? Do you think it just magically keeps working on it’s own without someone maintaining it?
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Yes I am aware that an open source project needs developers.
…until a image on a website is able to get a root
Xorg is a security trainwreck