• Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Debian

    … is not something you should ever use on a desktop PC. Due to its eternally very outdated nature and not even shipping bugfix updates**** it is not a good fit for anything but servers.

    Wayland, for some reason, couldn’t handle 4 monitors, with one above the other three.

    “Wayland” doesn’t handle monitors at all. What (because of Debian, wildly outdated) desktop did you use?

    Oh, and the biggest issue I had with Windows was copied straight into Linux. I want my (single) taskbar on a monitor that isn’t my primary.

    Not a Linux issue, but a problem with the desktop environment you chose. KDE Plasma allows you to configure panels in any way you want.

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      3 months ago

      Its Ubuntu 24.04. When I started it, it took quite awhile and then said “there as a problem, please log out”.

      Now that I’ve got it started (where I’m posting from now), it still refuses to arrange my monitors. And I have no idea what this 5th, 13.3" monitor is supposed to be.

      It looks like my issues are related to this hardware. I guess that’s understandable. I thought this hardware would be transparent to the OS, and apparently it’s not.

      If I hit apply here, it will fail and put them back in a line. I’ll also get around 4 fps and no cursor on the additional monitors.

      Screenshot of displays in Ubuntu settings