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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by michaelcampbell on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:44AM (#26680231)
> it's nigh impossible to eliminate tearing on multimonitor setups with X11,

I haven't seen tearing in longer than I can remember, and can't remember anyone even mentioning it, so I think you're overplaying this point JUST a tad. I tend to use older laptops with Linux, and older screens (VGA, DVI), so maybe that's the reason.

I hate touchpads.

I don't do PDF editing.

Everything's a tradeoff.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by com_kieffer on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:25AM (#26680492)
If you rotate a monitor (portrait mode) screen tearing becomes very frequent.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by minimaul on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:53AM (#26680658)
+1

I do indeed have a portrait monitor for throwing terminals on to, and it's the worst place for making tearing visible.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by cymor on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:01AM (#26681570)
I have a portrait 4k monitor in my setup and haven't seen any tearing.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by Delk on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:47PM (#26684109)
Out of curiosity (not to question), is this on Xorg or Wayland?

I rarely use my external monitor, and I can't even remember the last time I had used it in portrait mode, so these comments made me realize there could be use cases (and not just hardware or drivers) that trigger tearing that I just hadn't encountered. But I just took a quick shot at it, and I didn't see tearing, at least not on YouTube, nor when moving a window around.

I'm on Wayland with Intel graphics.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by linsomniac on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:47PM (#26682503)
I was wondering if I just wasn't very sensitive to tearing, because I haven't noticed it. One setup is a 4K 46" or Dell 30" next to a 4K laptop, the other is 4K 46" with two 1080P wings in portrait.
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