Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread Mark
One of my new year's resolutions is to upgrade the monitor on my Fedora 23 Desktop. I've been looking at a 34" curved 3440 x 1440 monitor. But first I want to make sure it actually makes sense to get such a large monitor for Linux and that there's a graphics card on the market that works well

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Mark wrote: > One of my new year's resolutions is to upgrade the monitor on my Fedora > 23 Desktop. > > I've been looking at a 34" curved 3440 x 1440 monitor. But first I want > to make sure it actually makes sense to get such a large

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread Mark
On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 18:21 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > To be the guy that answers a question with a question, have you > considered multiple smaller monitors? Yes, I have, but would prefer one large one, if it works with Linux. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Mark writes: > One of my new year's resolutions is to upgrade the monitor on my Fedora > 23 Desktop. > > I've been looking at a 34" curved 3440 x 1440 monitor. But first I want > to make sure it actually makes sense to get such a large monitor for > Linux and that

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread DJ Delorie
Doug writes: > Are you sure you really want such a large monitor? Heh. I have four monitors, the biggest is a 40" Seiki 4k. Total width is about six feet. For my purposes, more pixels is definitely better! (F20 with a GTX980, proprietary blob, multi-purpose) --

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
Whenever possible I try to get a motherboard that supports native Intel graphics since there is no proprietary driver for Intel, so you can always rely on the Intel driver working :-). (And you don't have the hassle of pluging in a video card that might have noisy fans). The latest Intel chips

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread thibaut noah
I'm sitting less than 20" away from my 34" screen and this is just priceless, for programming, music and video editing, got a 24" next to it and there is no way i'm going back to something that small. LG has on mac and windows the screen split feature which allow you to divide the screen up to 4

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread Doug
On 01/21/2016 03:02 PM, Mark wrote: One of my new year's resolutions is to upgrade the monitor on my Fedora 23 Desktop. I've been looking at a 34" curved 3440 x 1440 monitor. But first I want to make sure it actually makes sense to get such a large monitor for Linux and that there's a

Re: Monitor / graphics card recommendation

2016-01-21 Thread thibaut noah
I possess a lg 34" (the curved one), you can run it just fine with intel integrated graphics (my processor is a i7 4790k) if you don't use display heavy applications (like games). You can also play very well with a dedicated graphic card and a gaming virtual machine (using vga passthrough and