[CALUG] Looking for advice

[Bryan Smith]

This is awesome!  I'm a huge fan of 'cheap-works-out-best' results.

Even that 4:3 (or 5:4?) 17" monitor isn't really much less vertical size
than those 16:9 (or 16:10?) 22" monitors.  I assume the former could be a
1280x1024, which doesn't make it far, vertically, from the 1680x1050 or
1920x1080 that most 22" monitors are.

- bjs



On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 13:13 Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com wrote:

> Thanks to all who offered advice on my quest for a multi-monitor Ubuntu
> workstation.
>
> I took a little gamble and bought a used Dell Optiplex 7010 and two 22"
> Dell monitors. The Optiplex has a built-in video card that has two
> DisplayPort ports and one VGA port. I figured that buying a very common
> Dell PC would mean that it's video card would probably be supported by
> Ubuntu, and if not I could buy an appropriate video card.
>
> Once I had the monitors connected with the DisplayPort cables and Ubuntu
> loaded, I was pleasantly surprised that both monitors came to life. No
> muss, no fuss! Then I set about finding Linux equivalents for all of my
> Windows software. It took a while but I'm very happy to say I now have a
> nicely equipped Ubuntu workstation. Bye bye Windows.
>
> After a while I got to wondering if the unused VGA port might support a
> third monitor. So I hooked up one of my old 17" Dell monitors and to my
> delight it came to life too! So now I have a ton of screen real estate to
> work with.
>
> Here's a shot of my system as it stands right now:
>
> http://hawking.stealing-fire.com/5FBA1BFE-1109-4E46-B6DB-056595FFC889.JPG
>
> It turns out that multi-monitor support was a not an issue at all with
> Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks again,
> -Wes
>
>
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