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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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This is another one of those things I've heard about but not experienced, I use my computer every day and haven't had any issues in over a year at this point
Try using screens with different resolutions at the same time. Always gave me trouble. In my case was always using a horizontal one and a vertical one together. I've had framerate problems, tearing, artefacts (parts of the vertical screen wouldn't update while the other 2 worked fine). From time to time, X will forget my monitor configuration too after a reboot / unplugging the dock / waking from sleep. All that with 2 laptops from different brands using different docstations, one with XFCE on Ubuntu and the other with KDE on Arch. I got it mostly working, but it's still troublesome
That 40 year old X protocol might be the issue here, use wayland for multi monitor with different resolutions.
Yup, I suspect that is indeed the issue. Haven't tried KDE in wayland yet as I've seen some people saying it's still a bit rough. Will give it a try anyway. May give sway another shot too
Well, bugs don't spread evenly. Depending on your hardware, the software you run and your use cases, you might have no issues or really bad issues.