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by jupp0r 1022 days ago
I completely agree with you in principle. It's rarely an actual fault of anything in Linux. However the outside effect to me as a user is that I need to debug my monitor's EDID to get it to work correctly. Inconveniently for me (as much as I love digging into things like that) I really want to just plug in a conference room projector into my laptop and have other people already put in place out those workarounds for me sometimes.
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trelane 1022 days ago
> I really want to just plug in a conference room projector into my laptop and have other people already put in place out those workarounds for me sometimes.

Then you should definitely use Linux more, and buy hardware that explicitly supports Linux.

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jupp0r 1022 days ago
Ever had use hardware that you didn't buy yourself? I don't have a choice to select Linux friendly projectors at conferences. I still wanted to have the same experience of just plugging a cable into my computer and everything working as MacOS users have.
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trelane 1022 days ago
> Ever had use hardware that you didn't buy yourself?

Yes, of course. The point wasn't that I would buy a device for my own use (though that is kind of appealing these days), but rather that your choices influence what the market provides.

If you want display devices to support Linux, you need to preferentially buy devices that explicitly support Linux, and make that fact known to vendors as well as you can.

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