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I'm not old, but things like this make me go "back in my day we had a CRT with one input, VGA, and it just worked". Obviously we don't have to worry too much ab
by pathartl 3y ago
I'm not old, but things like this make me go "back in my day we had a CRT with one input, VGA, and it just worked". Obviously we don't have to worry too much about a monitor's supported modes anymore (though that wasn't a problem at the tail end of the CRT), but we're in a period where plugging in a monitor doesn't guarantee that it'll work.
Signal integrity and all that sure, but really it's just a freaking monitor.
- vvillena 3y agoThe VGA days were the times where a computer user could kill a CRT screen because the analog data stream wasn't what the monitor supported or expected. I don't miss those days! Plugging a monitor nowadays will always work. Of course, buying a new monitor only to have it fall back to a lower-quality compatible mode is unacceptable, but that's what happens in today's world. Monitors are more varied than ever. A 1080p60 monitor will work everywhere, and all monitors will accept such a signal. But we all love fancy toys.
- tshaddox 3y agoTrue, although to be fair I did spent an inordinate amount of time circa 2006 trying to get multiple monitor setups working reliably in Linux, across several years, PCs, and Linux distros.