> Mac and Windows also have problems with such setups.
Lol no.
I have issues on my Windows laptop when I try to use 2x 4k + one 2k display display from the single thunderbolt connector, due to Dell TB19 dock allocating too much bandwidth for the DP and HDMI ports (while 2 of my screens are USB-C) regardless of the resolution they use or the number of screens connected.
But with just 2x 4k USB-C screen, it provides both power and display output over a single cable, both in Windows 10 and 11.
And if I connect the 3rd screen to the dock after connecting that single cable, everything works.
FYI, since it is a dock bug, the same thing happens in Linux.
> Not to mention having displays with different resolutions and refresh rates
Lol no!!!
My displays are different: the 3rd one connected by DP is an ultra wide CHG49 - so neither the same frequency, aspect ratio or DPI.
Yet it still all works fine. Linux users are weird when they start assuming just because I use Windows, I must have an experience as bad as theirs.
Even my terminal (mintty) is far better than the best Linux has to offer - and I'm not even talking about AHK that lets me control my keys in a language far more advanced what the few configuration xkb or xmodmap offer.
> The amount of flickering windows gets away with is astonishing to me, and I say that as someone coming from linux.
I have noticed a little flickering on my Lumia 950 that runs Windows 10, but I'm ready to give a pass to 5 years old hardware running an experimental build of ARM64 Windows.
Maybe we have different hardware? I'm mostly using Lenovo laptops with one Microsoft and one Dells tablet.
> Also, what about audio that likes to update in the background and can simply fail until I reboot?
You mean driver updates? It depends on your Windows Update settings.
If you mean the audio getting rerouted, I like that when I plug a new device it gets the audio sink priority without fiddling.
And I like I can control that behavior with AutoHotKey scripts to do precisely what I want if I need to.
> The thing is, OSs are goddamn complex and thus they have plenty of bugs all around.
That is an absolutely fair comment! I'm just surprised linux geeks especially in a specific age group (over 25) seem to believe Windows is evil and anyone using it must not be a techie / must have a horrible experience and would find immediate enlightenment and satisfaction if installing Ubuntu.
All kind of nuance seems to be lost when you explain that it works fine for you, and give practical examples of advanced things that would be extremely complicated and sometimes totally impossible to do in Linux
Lol no.
I have issues on my Windows laptop when I try to use 2x 4k + one 2k display display from the single thunderbolt connector, due to Dell TB19 dock allocating too much bandwidth for the DP and HDMI ports (while 2 of my screens are USB-C) regardless of the resolution they use or the number of screens connected.
But with just 2x 4k USB-C screen, it provides both power and display output over a single cable, both in Windows 10 and 11.
And if I connect the 3rd screen to the dock after connecting that single cable, everything works.
FYI, since it is a dock bug, the same thing happens in Linux.
> Not to mention having displays with different resolutions and refresh rates
Lol no!!!
My displays are different: the 3rd one connected by DP is an ultra wide CHG49 - so neither the same frequency, aspect ratio or DPI.
Yet it still all works fine. Linux users are weird when they start assuming just because I use Windows, I must have an experience as bad as theirs.
Even my terminal (mintty) is far better than the best Linux has to offer - and I'm not even talking about AHK that lets me control my keys in a language far more advanced what the few configuration xkb or xmodmap offer.