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Store the screen layout using serials from the EDIDs. Why it doesn’t do this and “tries” to guess their position somehow is beyond me. I use the OWC TB3 dock with dual Asus PA328qs with the latest firmware. Because of apparently some lame design decisions, in order to run dual external monitors over a single TB3 port, you need the dock, which has one DisplayPort output, then a TB3-> DisplayPort (via USB-C alt mode II…
> Store the screen layout using serials from the EDIDs What does this mean/how do you do it?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identificatio...
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Store the screen layout using serials from the EDIDs. Why it doesn’t do this and “tries” to guess their position somehow is beyond me. I use the OWC TB3 dock with dual Asus PA328qs with the latest firmware. Because of apparently some lame design decisions, in order to run dual external monitors over a single TB3 port, you need the dock, which has one DisplayPort output, then a TB3-> DisplayPort (via USB-C alt mode II…
They do do that. It fails because the monitors have identical EDIDs. Peripheral vendors are less competent than you think.
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Well, indeed MS wouldn't break that compatibility. But the Mac way, to which you sign in when you get a Mac, isn't running 8 year old software forever. It's updating things every few years, and breaking stuff going forward, not being burdened with backwards compatibility forever. In exchange you get a more uniform and comprehensive experience, with software that adapts to new features faster.
> In exchange you get a more uniform and comprehensive experience, with software that adapts to new features faster. Do you know how old the version of Bash that ships with High Sierra is?
OS X is not about the version of bash it includes -- that's a historically hidden behind the UI tool for us geeks, not what's intended for the everyday Mac user to use (and the UI had been the priority there ever since the original Mac).
Lastly, I've used bona fide certified UNIX machines from vendors like IBM, HP and SUN that had much worse core userland -- awfully limited BSD versions of GNU tools, much older stuff, etc. So there's that too.
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> Store the screen layout using serials from the EDIDs What does this mean/how do you do it?
EDID is a little EEPROM inside virtually all modern monitors with a standardized format, which can be read over the display cable [1]. It essentially enables "plug and play" for monitors, as opposed to the bad old days when you needed either an .INF file to install in Windows or the supported sync ranges to type into your XFree86 configuration if you wanted anything above 640x480. It contains data like the vendor, mo…
The usual problems were missing mode lines that were actually supported (and needed) and incorrect dimensions.
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Store the screen layout using serials from the EDIDs. Why it doesn’t do this and “tries” to guess their position somehow is beyond me. I use the OWC TB3 dock with dual Asus PA328qs with the latest firmware. Because of apparently some lame design decisions, in order to run dual external monitors over a single TB3 port, you need the dock, which has one DisplayPort output, then a TB3-> DisplayPort (via USB-C alt mode II…
> For a ~$6k setup, it’s awful. It’d be awful for $1k. About 10 years ago, I had a Dell D830 running Fedora and later, early versions of Gnome shell. The dock powered the laptop and a mouse, keyboard, external drive, and two monitors. It was a single (albeit proprietary) connector, and the dock was fairly expensive (~$200 IIRC). It worked damn great, nearly every time, even with sleep States in Linux on a laptop 10 y…
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> Was this a clean install or was it upgraded from a previous version of macOS? You do realize, don't you, that if this is a relevant question I already have cause to complain? It's been the future for some time now, give us reliable upgrades already.
You do realize, don't you, that if this is a relevant question I already have cause to complain? It's been the future for some time now, give us reliable upgrades already. Yes, it’s the future, but as I mentioned, the Mac I’m running High Sierra on is nearly 10 years-old—it shipped with a version of Snow Leopard, MacOS x 10.6. That was 7 major operating system releases ago—pretty sure nobody at Apple tested upgrading…
Yes, a $50 billion company that doesn't run massive amounts of automated regression tests on one of its flagship products is Wrong. Come on, Microsoft manages to support absurd levels of backwards compatibility (see the discussion upthread about upgrading from Windows 1.0 to Windows 10), what's Apple's excuse?
From the symptoms, it looks like it’s starving the computer of memory. It doesn’t look like anyone’s debugged this, so once I get back to my computer I’ll take a look and get it reported to Apple.
I can't edit anymore, so I'm going to reply: I did a bit more research on this issue and it's not actually a memory bug at all. In reality there appears to be an infinite loop in calls to task_for_pid: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-355... . I'm still not sure who's doing the wrong thing, htop or Apple, but it's clear that freezing up the system is always incorrect behavior.
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If your confidence is that low, why use MacOS at all?
Despite the flaws it still provides a more consistent experience than Linux (especially on laptops). I just wish Apple put as much love into MacOS as they do into iOS. Also there is a lot of proprietary software like the Adobe suite + Music production software that is only available on MacOS or Windows.
One one line of laptops, maybe. Run Linux on a single line of laptops that officially support it (I suggest XPS), making this an apples-apples comparison, and Darwin doesn't look as competitive anymore. Or cut the other way and look at Hackintoshes:)
> proprietary software
Yeah, this I agree with; WINE helps but sometimes you're stuck needing Darwin/NT.