Off is still better than any amount of idle. The starters in cars that have start/stop systems are designed specifically to handle it. Disabling the system will not give any significant extra prolonged life of those types of starters.
Jeeps are just built like shit in general. Nothing to do with the stop/start system itself.
First order of the day after turning on the car: Deactivate the start-stop.
Because you're either stupid or rented a shitty vehicle in general.
It increases engine, battery, and starter motor wear and tear. Leading to earlier disposing of the car
It does not. The whole system is designed to handle it. And by decreasing the amount of time the engine sits idle at stops, it actually reduces overall long term engine wear.
increases trafic
No, it doesn't, nor is there any proof of such.
But, please, do continue spouting absolute bullshit.
I have lots of real examples.
No, you don't.
No, then you have a bezel in the way. If I'm editing graphics I don't want to be having to work around a bezel.
So don't split between the bezel. Or get monitors without them. Thinking the bezel is as bad as you do is the only thing stupid around here.
What's the "more" you can do by having your pixels spread out across different displays?
Freedom to arrange the pixels the way I want. Easier to mix and match different window sizes. Can mix and match between full screen applications (games, mostly) with those that aren't.
It's less hassle.
Except it's not.
I see you know absolutely nothing about this topic. They're called preview devices.
Which doesn't inherently mean they are using multiple monitors, but probably do because there are probably multiple people looking at it. They could do exactly the same setup as you do the work and preview in different windows.
But feel free to keep displaying your lack of knowledge and inability to argue.
My effectively having four monitors stuck together is a huge boon to all types of work.
Yet, you have no real examples. Everything you've said you do with one big monitor, I can do the exact same thing with two, but also more.
We have just two monitors at work plus the laptop display and it's irritating when I need to be working, looking up resources, and looking at my notes at the same time.
Sounds easy. Though, I would probably just not use the laptop's screen.
At best, you can say you prefer one screen. But you have nothing to prove one is better than the other. Two monitors are for people in video production? What? A single 4k screen would be better for people in image and video production because of it's higher pixel density. Two 2ks are better for sheer usable screen space and other productivity tasks, as well as being easier on the GPU.
1.
Mint is just Ubuntu with a bunch of pre-installed, pre-configured software aka bloat that often times regular people don't even need.
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when their are security issues the Mint team doesn't say shit
3.
Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce are all ass.
4. I haven't had to say it because others have, but also Mint still defaults to X11. X11 is a fucking security nightmare: no application isolation, anything and everything can be keylogged and/or screen captured, insecure defaults, massive amounts of bloated legacy code that most people do not need or use.
Keep sucking that Linux Mint dick if you want, but smart people would stay the fuck away from it.
I find that to be a highly inefficient use of power and GPU resources. Especially when monitors with essentially zero bezels exist. Not that I mind the bezel anyway, because I'm not trying to display anything that would ever stretch between the two. 4k is overrated for any kind of at home use and anything higher is just stupid outside of certain niche specialties.
I have specific needs for X11 that include screen sharing, remote access, remote control, thin clients, screen capture, and other things that Wayland either cannot do, or cannot do well.
Wayland supports all of these things you specifically mentioned and does them just fine. It just does many of these things *differently* for security reasons, because X11 is a security nightmare. My distro doesn't include X11 or even Wayland's X11 hybrid mode, so I only have straight Wayland and I do all of the things you mentioned regularly with no issues, except for the thin clients.
I don't understand how they could be awkward. I suppose if the two monitors aren't the same, it could be awkward. But I have never not bought matching pairs. I used to use a giant 42in screen and it was awful for both productivity and gaming.
Does Wayland allow me to run a program on a server but display back to my laptop?
Natively? No. Because that isn't something that needs to be built in for every user, because very few people use it. Not to mention, it's a shitty protocol with shitty performance. Wayland has Waypipe. Or you could just do full VNC/RDP.
I can't tell if Wayland supports the "xkb compose sequences" or has an equivalent
Wayland itself supports them just fine: https://wayland-book.com/seat/....
that's not being stubborn, that because it's missing useful and needed features.
Yes, it is you being stubborn, because there are solutions that you never bothered to check, or are operating off of outdated information.
X11 is straight ass. It's only real benefit is compatibility and legacy. Beyond that it's fucking awful. X11 uses more resources, has higher latency, and has absolutely abysmal security - none of which is going to improve compared to Wayland.
Multiple monitors are always better than a singular, larger monitor.
Yeah, because English is a fucking garbage and pronouns don't follow the same rules for possession as nouns, because *checks notes* no reason.
You're such a bullshiter who obviously never used Mint, Debian, Ubuntu nor Fedora. Reading the Internet about these distros is not using them.
I'm have used all of them and am currently on a Fedora based distro. I've probably used more distros than you even know about.
the cinnamon user interface is probably the best tradeof between simplicity and usability.
Who the fuck wants this trade-off when you can fully have both with zero trade-off?
Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint. Mint IS the downstream. Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce are all ass. And while I don't like GNOME, it's better than those 3.
Fedora or Fedora Atomic based OSes. https://bazzite.gg/ or https://getaurora.dev/en for windows-like desktop and/or gaming. https://projectbluefin.io/ if you don't mind a more traditional Linux/MacOS look and don't care about gaming at all.
Disk crisis, please clean up!
