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> Linux has trouble with external and multiple displays, trouble with power management, trouble with wireless on and on. What version of Ubuntu were you using,
by tentacleuno 5y ago
> Linux has trouble with external and multiple displays, trouble with power management, trouble with wireless on and on.
What version of Ubuntu were you using, out of curiosity? The issues may have been fixed now.
As a personal anecdote, I have never had problems with multiple displays on Fedora 34. It was just plug and play with Nouveau. Although I am still trying to figure out how to enable Hibernation in GNOME: I personally use the feature a lot.
- 3np 5y agoVariable DPI is still an issue though? I haven’t figured out a way to have things seamless and nice with both a 4K screen and a 19” 720p at the same time.
- vetinari 5y agoSupport for multi-DPI monitors is Wayland-only; nobody is going to retrofit that into Xorg. So if you are using distro that uses X11 by default, it will not work. If you use distro that uses Wayland by default, it works out of the box.
- rossy 5y agoMulti-monitor high-DPI will probably never work well in Xorg, but most Wayland compositors support it just fine. I switched to Sway a few months back and it's great. Unlike in Windows, when a window straddles a high-DPI and lo-DPI monitor, it's not big on one monitor or small on the other. It stays the same virtual size on both and the window contents quietly re-renders itself in high or low DPI when it's dragged between them.