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macOS still has a completely retarded implementation of DisplayPort MST (i.e. the only supported display is their own 6K display). It's been growing on me for

macOS still has a completely retarded implementation of DisplayPort MST (i.e. the only supported display is their own 6K display). It's been growing on me for years, as macOS is my favourite platform, but I could go on a full Linus Torvalds rant about this. Why the fuck can't I use my dockstation that has 2 DisplayPort outputs and 1x HDMI to connect 3 external monitors? It literally works on Windows on the same fucking machine. On macOS all you get is mirroring. So ultimately the reason is that Apple is completely oblivous to the millions of people who don't use monitors that are made or sold by Apple. Either oblivious or they flat out don't care.

thefz 5y ago
> So ultimately the reason is that Apple is completely oblivous to the millions of people who don't use monitors that are made or sold by Apple. Either oblivious or they flat out don't care. They are not strangers to limiting or breaking existing protocols or standards in favor of their own implementation, and then saying "see? Apple just works". Take their broken SMB implementation in OSX as an example.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  >Take their broken SMB implementation in OSX as an example. That doesn't make sense as they completely rewrote their SMB implementation to improve it.
  - fredoralive 5y ago
    Quite a lot of people would suspect that the the initial reason for reimplementing SMB on Mac OS X with smbx was that Samba chose to use GPLv3 for newer versions, rather than any direct technical reasons.