I’m looking at getting a dual screen setup and I was wondering if there’s something I should be way off before pressing the purchase button.
What I had on mind was a 4K144hz HDR monitor for my main, and a regular 1440p 60/75Hz for the secondary. I know that linux is quirky and having different resolutions and refresh rates can be prone to problems. Is this config something that I should avoid or is there something I should do on my system beforehand?
If you want a heads up on ‘quirks’ you need to spec your hardware.
AFAIK, most quirks are related to laptops.
My dual monitor setup is a dual Acer (K216kU) 4K/144mhz monitors running via display port off a AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT gpu. I run Devuan distro(Debian-systemd) and desktop if xfce4 and I’m using some ‘display’ program.
I can independently hot switch resolution, refresh rate, scaling, mirroring, orientation and a few other things. Basically, so long as the monitor follows the information standard(I forget the jargon), the display program will allow you to make use of it.
Tip, when you buy a GPU, try to get max RAMM and different connections. $xDP was cheeper, woops…
I updated the post with the PC specs, but it’s pretty much a full AMD system (new build since my old i5 6600K and gtx1070, was about time).