Can you give some examples of basic features that weren’t working with your dual monitor setup?
KDE might also help with this btw, as while I didn’t have any glaring issues with dual monitors in cinnamon (on Fedora), it improved overall when I switched to KDE. Used to have to change the audio output to my TV whenever I enabled it, now it happens automatically (plus the option to disable my HDMI audio if I preferred the “keep the same audio when switching to a different video output” behavior).
Only issue was that it didn’t work correctly the very first time, followed by it suddenly working the next time when I was intending to troubleshoot it.
Imo, KDE handles dual monitors better than windows even, especially if your secondary monitor is a TV you enable and disable depending on what you’re doing. Two clicks to toggle it, it handles different scaling seemlessly across the monitors (iirc, windows would “pop” to the scaling setting of whatever monitor they were mostly showing on as you moved them). Mouse cursor visibility improves when shaking the mouse, so it’s easy to find it on a giant screen.
On top of my mind are at least the following issues:
Panel bar is not duplicated by default. Trying to copy it is the worst experience ever. Won’t even be synced.
There is no time shown on the 2nd screen at all. What??
Some apps open randomly on primary screen and cannot get them to stick on 2nd depending on the app. Yes I tried. Firefox was the worst.
Dragging from one to the other or using shortcuts is far less intuitive and fast than Windows.
Couldn’t change notification popup area to somewhere else.
Going from login screen to user select / power menu freaks out my DPI suddenly and makes it extremely frustrating to click a tiny button.
These are major issues IMO and I spent countless hours trying to fix them and they either wont work or so poorly I will not rely on it.
That being said I was planning on trying KDE plasma. Its just that literally everyone I spoke to told me Linux Mint is better than sliced bread and will solve every issue known to man kind. It was oversold and missed the mark by A LOT for me. It misses so many customizable settings.
Great choice for someone who literally has a laptop and only ever uses their browser I guess.
I need full customization in every regard and preferably basic stuff in a GUI. Cannot spend hours trying to find a terminal command that hopefully changes something and doesnt break or worse.
Imo, KDE handles dual monitors better than windows even, especially if your secondary monitor is a TV you enable and disable depending on what you’re doing.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh I need an alias to unfuck KDE whenever I unplug/plug back in the cable for my 2nd monitor
alias kdereset='kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell'
Can you give some examples of basic features that weren’t working with your dual monitor setup?
KDE might also help with this btw, as while I didn’t have any glaring issues with dual monitors in cinnamon (on Fedora), it improved overall when I switched to KDE. Used to have to change the audio output to my TV whenever I enabled it, now it happens automatically (plus the option to disable my HDMI audio if I preferred the “keep the same audio when switching to a different video output” behavior).
Only issue was that it didn’t work correctly the very first time, followed by it suddenly working the next time when I was intending to troubleshoot it.
Imo, KDE handles dual monitors better than windows even, especially if your secondary monitor is a TV you enable and disable depending on what you’re doing. Two clicks to toggle it, it handles different scaling seemlessly across the monitors (iirc, windows would “pop” to the scaling setting of whatever monitor they were mostly showing on as you moved them). Mouse cursor visibility improves when shaking the mouse, so it’s easy to find it on a giant screen.
On top of my mind are at least the following issues: Panel bar is not duplicated by default. Trying to copy it is the worst experience ever. Won’t even be synced.
There is no time shown on the 2nd screen at all. What??
Some apps open randomly on primary screen and cannot get them to stick on 2nd depending on the app. Yes I tried. Firefox was the worst.
Dragging from one to the other or using shortcuts is far less intuitive and fast than Windows.
Couldn’t change notification popup area to somewhere else.
Going from login screen to user select / power menu freaks out my DPI suddenly and makes it extremely frustrating to click a tiny button.
These are major issues IMO and I spent countless hours trying to fix them and they either wont work or so poorly I will not rely on it.
That being said I was planning on trying KDE plasma. Its just that literally everyone I spoke to told me Linux Mint is better than sliced bread and will solve every issue known to man kind. It was oversold and missed the mark by A LOT for me. It misses so many customizable settings.
Great choice for someone who literally has a laptop and only ever uses their browser I guess.
I need full customization in every regard and preferably basic stuff in a GUI. Cannot spend hours trying to find a terminal command that hopefully changes something and doesnt break or worse.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh I need an alias to unfuck KDE whenever I unplug/plug back in the cable for my 2nd monitor
Ah mine is always left plugged in, guess it can depend on use case.