Anssi Saari <anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> writes: > Rolf Blum <rolfb...@ewe.net> writes: > >> In order to expound on the contribution of Karl Vogel: >> It gives me two big monitors (I regret that there is no space for a >> third one) >> a ergonomic mouse and a trackball >> and my keyboard(G19) I think is roughly 10 years old, one of the best >> investments into computer gear ever. > > Do you or Karl then have a laptop where you *can't* connect two external > displays and a mouse and a keyboard? This to me is a pretty basic thing > to do with any laptop less than a decade old. I suppose some laptops > migth be limited in the display interfaces department, I just don't buy > those.
I would second that. I have an 11-year-old Dell E6230 laptop to which I had two monitors attached via a docking station plus external mouse and keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 v1.0 - I inherited it in a slightly grubby state from a co-worker about 15 years ago, gave it a wash in the dishwasher, and it has been fine ever since). The docking station has two DVI ports and a VGA port, but I use the set-up with just one monitor these days. I work with multiple virtual desktops via Gnome and have a terminal to a different server on each desktop, running a tmux sessions. Somehow I found that the second monitor just caused an unnecessary extra amount of complexity. I have a second, much newer laptop with a single HDMI port. I imagine that not may laptops have more than one these days, so for multiple monitors you will probably need a docking station or some sort of splitter for a single port (no idea how well such things might work). > I use a desktop at home because it gives me CPU and GPU power to do > things my laptops can't and a lot more storage too. Luckily I don't need much CPU/GPU power and I try to keep storage to a minimum. I like to have two backups of stuff, so more storage generally means 3x more storage :-/ Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction.
