Over the last couple of weeks:
1) Consigned my XP installation to the bitbucket and resized my RAID1 Win7 installation to use the whole of the hybrid disks it lives on. Unexpected bonus - Mint no longer seems confused by those drives.
2) Almost two years
later than planned I upgraded my dual 16:9 letter box monitors to a WQHD+ beast. It is lovely. In the intervening delay the model I linked had gone obsolete. The replacement model introduced HDR, that's gone obsolete too. I got a
ViewSonic VP3881 which given the identical specs is probably the same thing with a different name on the box.
My elderly 1920x1080 screens were over meter wide, too wide to be practical. The left screen was just park space in equal measure due to the 45mm dead zone down the middle and the extreme neck twist. At my last 2 contracts I've had modern, dual 1920x1200 screens with thin bezels. Not being 16bastard9 makes those much better than my previous home setup but still not one big space, one screen is always primary. This is just one vast acreage of usable screen. I needed a cold shower and a little lie down after running excel & LibreOffice calc for the first time. The extra 25% vertical space is delicious.
Stats of actual screen space:
Old: 1000x27.5cm with 45mm dead zone, 3840x1080
New: 88x37cm, 3840x1600
The only grumble is there's no on screen display manager for linux. Trying to do PIP using the buttons is tedious to the point of giving up. It's not ViewSonic to blame - there's no support for hdmi-cec or DisplayPort aux channel in the NVidia drivers nor in nouveau.
3) Figured out why my attempts to blacklist the kernel floppy driver have not worked. Not having the system repeatedly wait for a non-existant floppy drive knocked considerable time off the boot process.
