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    Linux Mint Wins

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by TANWare, Apr 11, 2017.

  1. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Hi,
    I just purchased a CZ340ck Acer monitor. I expected at best DP 1.1a with 3440x1440 and either 50HZ 32 bit or 3440x1440 60Hz at 24 bit. Well Windows 7 disappoints at 2560x1080 max 75 HZ. Whereas Linux mint gives 3440x1440 75Hz 32 bit with 4 lanes in nvidia x-server. So DP 1.2 exists.
     
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    While not as seamless, or automatic, I have manually set the timings in W7 to achieve 3440x1440 32 bit 75 Hz. So Linux still wins here.
     
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    Yeah, and Mint especially wins when you INSTALL IT ON STICKS/EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES rather than on any internal drive. Been doing that since Mint 13. I burn the iso to DVD, run the DVD on a lappie with no internal hard drive, and when it asks where to install I specify the stick/external drive I have attached.

    It works well with Kingston Data Traveller G2 2.0 or G4 3.0, and with small external drives of 60GB or even 250 GB (Free Agent, WD, etc).

    Now that I can SIGN IN AS ROOT in Mint 17, my main objection to Mint vanishes. Back during Mint 13 it was a pistol to install. But honey, times have changed.

    Best of all you can CLONE the sticks to other sticks or hard drives. Just be sure your target disk is bigger than your source. Which means, you should craft your 'master' Mint on 16 GB or 32 GB, so you can clone it to more places. Fix the master for any changes, update it, then clone. Same as having backups, and even better, it's plug and play in any machine.

    I have 20 of them: multiples of Dell Latitude 6530 are latest, then 6510, 6410, Optiplex 760 and 780s, HP 6400, Dimension 8400, two Acer netbooks A0A150. The sticks work fine in all of them. Some have only 1GB of RAMM, three have 8 GB, mostly 4 GB; maybe 1/3 have nVidia.

    BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD alsamixer and run it in terminal so Mint can 'see' your real sound. It's GREAT with Xonar and Creative Soundblaster. I don't get such sterling results in the other distros I've also put on sticks/external drives, which I can't explain (Fedora, Debian, PCLinuxOS, the others being less friendly).

    I'm @brainouty in twitter if you want more info immediately.

    Why so many machines? CUZ WINDOWS BREAKS A LOT, so need Linux to rescue it. I run old DOS programs for my business and they work in Wine.

    Hope this helps. Yell at me if it doesn't. Thank you for your time!
     
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