MacOS is perpetually losing the physical position of my displays. 95% of the time I plug my laptop in the display layout swaps them. I would understand if it was 50% of the time, although I'd still be frustrated, but the fact it happens reliably is beyond me.
Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
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#12I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t support daisy chaining multiple monitors using DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (MST). That would be an elegant solution that also would fit Apple’s style.
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#13I can't stand multiple displays, mac or not, they just distract me. I want one big display, something like 27" or 32". To each their own.
Same. I've tried multiple monitor setups a few times, but I always ended up actually using just the main one with the other ones displaying Spotify or email inbox all day.
I don't need that, it's more comfortable to bring Spotify to the front on the main screen than turn my head anyway.
I however feel limited using anything less than a 5k screen.
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#14I've used multiple displays back when monitors were still pretty small in size but i can't find a good reason anymore to use more than one for a developer in the age of 27"/5K. It's more distracting than productive.
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#15I don't get why the screens sometimes swap around. It makes no sense to me that sometimes when I log in, my extra screens are switched and I have to move all the contents. The machine has the serial numbers of the screens, and it knows what ports they are connected to. Why can they not just use that information to remember where stuff is supposed to be?
The other thing that annoys me is that it changes the background when I've already chosen just to have black as my background on all screen. Works for a few days, then next time I log in, there's a photo instead. Why, Apple?
They also don't let you use the native resolution of the screens very easily. I had to install BetterDisplay to get this working, and even that isn't great.
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#16I’ve had none of the issues OP complains about.
Windows do open on the wrong screen, but I keep the same windows open for months at a time.
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#17I can't stand multiple displays, mac or not, they just distract me. I want one big display, something like 27" or 32". To each their own.
27” is still a bit too small for my taste and bigger screens usually don’t gove above 4k. The best I could find at the moment is a 34” 5k2k ultrawide. Unfortunately a lot of those are curved, which I hate. I would love something like a 36” 16:9 monitor with 8k resolution.
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#18This seems to indicate that most devs at Apple are using a single, large display rather than multi setup. Otherwise, the devs themselves would have been frustrated into fixing it. I tried it for awhile but I just prefer a single myself. Command/Tab to switch around is just great and I don't have to turn my head hundreds of times a day.
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#19I've used multiple displays back when monitors were still pretty small in size but i can't find a good reason anymore to use more than one for a developer in the age of 27"/5K. It's more distracting than productive.
And I find multiple monitors are extremely useful. Especially if your monitor is only 27’’.
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#20I don't get why the screens sometimes swap around. It makes no sense to me that sometimes when I log in, my extra screens are switched and I have to move all the contents. The machine has the serial numbers of the screens, and it knows what ports they are connected to. Why can they not just use that information to remember where stuff is supposed to be? The other thing that annoys me is that it changes the background…
There was an article here on hn like a week ago.
Apparently a lot of manufacturers ship monitors with identical serial numbers, so the os can’t identify them.