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I don't know. I think GP is nuts. But when I have my own weird use case I expect people to think I'm nuts, too.
That's kind of the point though? It's nuts, but you can still manage to do it. Maybe a handful of people would ever actually need to do it, so why would it be a default, or even an option people might accidently set?
Even before Big Sur, the output to external monitors on MPBs was buggy as hell. My 2019 one wakes up from sleep, and its a 50/50 chance on the external monitor output working, causing me to have to unplug and replug the cable to get it to output.
Even before Big Sur, the output to external monitors on MPBs was buggy as hell. My 2019 one wakes up from sleep, and its a 50/50 chance on the external monitor output working, causing me to have to unplug and replug the cable to get it to output.
I've been using https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and it helps with some of it - one monitor would wake from sleep sideways
It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.
So a few months back after an update - not sure if it was Windows or nVidia - my graphic card drive starts crashing. And even though in the event log it shows the driver recovered, the display would never come back and I’d have to reboot the machine. Swapping cards solved the issue so I figured it might be my 1080ti or perhaps my power supply was starting to fail and not supplying enough power (others with the error I was getting reporting replacing their power supply fixed it).
I was all set to get a new power supply when for whatever reason I decided to test Display Port. It worked! Well, with the annoying behavior for why I didn’t want to use Display Port under Windows in the first place.
Sigh.
Bottom line - no vendor or platform is perfect. They all have their issues. In general I find I have far fewer problems with Apple; as it should be - they have far more control over all the variables at play.
Also if we ever had 100% trouble free computing what would people on the Internet have to complain about?
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I've been using https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and it helps with some of it - one monitor would wake from sleep sideways
How does that work? Does it automatically rotate the affected screen, or do you have to manually launch it?
So you get everything perfect and run it - save the output to a script, and then run that script whenever the monitors decide to go weird.
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Wait until you find out it's updating your motherboard BIOS/firmware (it tells you when it starts doing it!), and there's no way to stop it. Not super great when the whole point of not upgrading to the latest BIOS was because it introduced a critical bug.
This only happens on Microsoft hardware though (or it is not Windows doing the update).
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How does that work? Does it automatically rotate the affected screen, or do you have to manually launch it?
When you launch it it either reports your current setup - or replaces your current setup with the command line. So you get everything perfect and run it - save the output to a script, and then run that script whenever the monitors decide to go weird.
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Sounds great - do you have a blog or repo describing your setup?
https://github.com/Jeffrey-P-McAteer/azure_os - not polished at all, just what I use to throw away + re-format my laptop when I lose track of the files on it. EDIT: I am pretty damn proud of it though, nearly every week I'm finding some button I can "not have to click anymore" and packages that support that get recorded in the azure-os build script.