Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!” (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It’s a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      10·
      13 hours ago

      Mint is still on X11, pretty much all other distos switched over to Wayland by now, which works much better with multi-monitor setups.

      There’s a subforum in the mint forums about this, and this is the reason why I don’t recommend mint for newbies anymore.

        • Bluewing@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I’m leaning more and more to recommending Atomic distros for newcomers now. Fedora SilverBlue or Kinonite are excellent choices. Bazzite or Aurora for gamers. It’s pretty hard for newbies to mess up their install and rolling back to a working install is easy if you do. All the while letting users install software without effort through flatpacks and appImages. Even updates can be automated easily.

          • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
            1·
            4 hours ago

            You can also switch between all of the ones you named using ostree rebase or so, which is pretty rad

        • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Depends on user…

          If a user is ok with using terminal to install apps and is reading outputs of commands, I recommend endeavourOS, because it is very nice having yay finding any apps you need (but nvidia driver setup has to be done in terminal and you have to check, that you have the right dependencies)

          If user is not happy with rolling, debian would be next choice, but still not a set and forget, and apps have different ways to be installed and often you have to add sources to ATP)

          If a user want it do just work and being modern, I would point them to fedora/bazzite (damn, don’t know how to write, but the gaming first distro that is very steamOSy)

          And if a user does not at all want to anything on OS level and is therefore fine with using snaps, I would lead to Ubuntu most recent version (was positive amazed on how good it became as I had to setup one at work)

          Edit: Bonus for people who dislike terminal but still want rolling updates: openSuse Tumbleweed, you can install anything by gui, and there is a website with apps similar to the AUR where you can search apps and install them using a single click Package manager is full GUI as well. It updates itself every time you turn off your PC, what I very much like

    • Bongles@lemmy.zip
      1·
      12 hours ago

      I can’t get the monitor to stay off. Something keeps getting it to turn back on, which is annoying because I have 3 devices plugged into it. So instead of me coming back to another device and both monitors turn on and to that device, this monitor is just always showing the one device and i have to switch the input.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I can’t get the monitor to stay off…

        This is just a shot in the dark, but:

        I recently learned enough about the differences between HDMI and DisplayPort to boil them down in my mind to “HDMI Bad. DisplayPort Good.”

        Wild oversimplification, I know.

        So now, whenever I have display issues of any kind, the first thing I do is upgrade the cable to a DisplayPort cable.

        I mention this specifically because I have felt like my monitor wake and sleep behavior became more predictable.

        Sorry, this idea really is mostly vibes. (Informed by my perception that HDMI has a crazy amount of control signaling which itself is proprietary and inconsistently implemented.)

        But for the cost of an $8 cable, I feel like swapping in a DisplayPort has led to better display outcomes for me.

        • Bongles@lemmy.zip
          2·
          3 hours ago

          You know what, it is hdmi. That’s not a crazy idea. The ports are hdmi on both ends though, the monitor has a displayport but my desktop is using it and the mini pc has 2 hdmi outputs. I wonder if adapter-cable-adapter would do anything for me in that case.

          • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Yes.

            I’m always nervous about those little black-box mysterybadapters, but I have used them and had them be fine.

            I don’t really know enough about how HDMI works to say if it helps as much as native DisplayPort at both ends.

            I suspect it might help, since some DRM will fail open when it can’t negotiate a restriction. And I imagine those dongles require keeping things simple.

            My use of the adapted setup has been rare - mostly due to not having many such adapters on hand when I’m setting things up.

            Anyway, I feel a little bad passing on my superstition; but it seems to have helped me.

            Worth a shot, I guess.