Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off windows and i didn’t miss out on anything. Now. Ive been trying to migrate my gaming rig to Linux with… Not a lot of success. I have 3 monitors plugged into it, a Samsung crg49 and then 2 small no name brand monitors I like for websites and discord and stuff while I play on the Samsung monitor. On windows it works flawlessly. No Linux distro I’ve used has been able to handle it and I’m not sure how I should be approaching this. Running games has been fine. I use lutris and have been able to play pretty much everything I’ve wanted to with some tweaking. But whether a few hours or a few days, eventually I start having issues with the displays. Monitors will black out. Not boot. Eventually the whole system just stops working in a way that I can figure out. I have a ryzen 3700x, and a Nvidia 2080ti. 64GB of RAM. all my storage is nvme. I have tried most major distros. Mostly Ubuntu is what I have experience with. I have tried some others like nobara, but performance was awful, and display management was an issue. Ive never really installed other desktop environments other than what comes with those distros, so if it’s a matter of “use distro x, but you need to install weyland” then sure. Just let me know that’s something I need to do. 😋 So… What do you suggest I run? I really dont want to go back to windoze. It’s just awful these days.
What about using workspaces instead of extra monitors? You can use Linux Mint EDGE for that.
Eh. I like what I like. Being able to glance down for a guide or look at who is messaging me on discord is preferable to having to do key presses to switch to a new workspace, then switch back. Maybe im just too old to learn new stuff. 😋
I’m with you on liking multi-monitor set-ups. I also have several workspaces and activities (a KDE thing—you can think of it as another set of workspaces accessible via a shortcut key), which means I’ve got tons of “space” to play around with.
I could have my e-mail program run on one workspace, then switch to my main workspace with one screen for VSCode (or whatever) and another for the browser window with lots of tabs that I can just refer to while doing work. And then in a different activity, a multi-media program might be playing a podcast or just some music to help me focus.
My discord is usually on the same activity as my multi-media program though, as I don’t really need to refer to it as often. If there’s a new message for me, my system gives me a notification and an icon in my system tray lights up or something, indicating a new message.
But yeah! You do you with your preferred workflow!