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I didn't want to get into these kinds of discussions, but I'll venture a guess that you don't often connect/disconnect multiple monitors to your machine, and es

by jwr 10y ago

I didn't want to get into these kinds of discussions, but I'll venture a guess that you don't often connect/disconnect multiple monitors to your machine, and especially not one HiDPI and one HD. That experience alone is enough to ditch Linux altogether. BTW, Windows 10 is slightly better, but not by much. The major difference being that one can predictably get a signal on both monitors, I guess, which is good, but then the HiDPI story is still pretty bad.

shmerl 10y ago
I do. Plasma nailed down multi-monitor setup in 5.8.x. Before that it was significantly worse. For different DPI on each monitor you'd need to use Wayland though.
Aldo_MX 10y ago
As a keyboard user, I feel Windows more polished than macOS when you work with multiple screens. To name a simple example, pressing CMD + Shift + -> moves an application to the next monitor, with macOS you should pay for a window manager to get a similar functionality, or give up the keyboard and embrace a touchpad-centric gimmick like Expose, which I perceive as distracting with these animations. It is certainly an example of YMMV.
- nikon 10y ago
  Spectacle is free and does this and a lot more should you need it.
majewsky 10y ago
Ah, multi-monitor support. I always joke how I ditched hardware random-number generators because the window placement of macOS is a superior source of randomness. Meanwhile, multi-monitor support in Plasma 5 has worked for me for years without any trouble whatsoever.
- shmerl 10y ago
  Well, it was buggy until not very long ago: * https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365455 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365455 * https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/multi-screen-woes-in-plasma-5-7/ https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/multi-screen-... This also was rather annoying and took a long time for distros to catch up: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42985 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42985 Since Plasma 5.8.x, it's much much better.

by jwr 10y ago

shmerl 10y ago

I do. Plasma nailed down multi-monitor setup in 5.8.x. Before that it was significantly worse. For different DPI on each monitor you'd need to use Wayland though.

Aldo_MX 10y ago

As a keyboard user, I feel Windows more polished than macOS when you work with multiple screens. To name a simple example, pressing CMD + Shift + -> moves an application to the next monitor, with macOS you should pay for a window manager to get a similar functionality, or give up the keyboard and embrace a touchpad-centric gimmick like Expose, which I perceive as distracting with these animations. It is certainly an example of YMMV.

nikon 10y ago
Spectacle is free and does this and a lot more should you need it.

majewsky 10y ago

Ah, multi-monitor support. I always joke how I ditched hardware random-number generators because the window placement of macOS is a superior source of randomness. Meanwhile, multi-monitor support in Plasma 5 has worked for me for years without any trouble whatsoever.

shmerl 10y ago
Well, it was buggy until not very long ago: * https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365455 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365455 * https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/multi-screen-woes-in-plasma-5-7/ https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/07/multi-screen-... This also was rather annoying and took a long time for distros to catch up: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42985 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42985 Since Plasma 5.8.x, it's much much better.