New Setup
I just spent the day tearing apart my desk and creating my new setup. A lot of this setup I already had, but today I added a huge TV.
For the past few years, I have had my Linux workstation connected to three monitors: 25", 22", 25" (1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1920x1080) and this has been a great setup for me from a workflow standpoint. Whenever I have wanted to watch a TV show or YouTube video, I can put it up on a 25" monitor, but there are some functional issues I have with the setup. For one, my lack of Windows makes it difficult to play many games. Also, a lot of videos go off full screen if I click elsewhere on my workspace.
With my recent Internet upgrade at home, I am doing a lot more YouTube and streaming video, and I am wanting to get back into gaming but I am currently playing games on my laptop because it's my best machine running Windows.
So, I am working on building that new gaming PC in my Build Critique thread, this is what it will be eventually used for.
The software setup here is Linux Mint Debian Edition (on the tri-monitors) and Windows 7 on an old scrap machine running on the TV. (will be the gaming PC on the TV soon).
The TV is a 40" Samsung LED TV, ceiling mounted above my middle monitor. This will be primarily used for gaming, streaming video, and Skype video conference calls.
I am really happy with how this turned out, it's pretty much exactly as I envisioned it would be when I bought the hardware on NewEgg.
For the past few years, I have had my Linux workstation connected to three monitors: 25", 22", 25" (1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1920x1080) and this has been a great setup for me from a workflow standpoint. Whenever I have wanted to watch a TV show or YouTube video, I can put it up on a 25" monitor, but there are some functional issues I have with the setup. For one, my lack of Windows makes it difficult to play many games. Also, a lot of videos go off full screen if I click elsewhere on my workspace.
With my recent Internet upgrade at home, I am doing a lot more YouTube and streaming video, and I am wanting to get back into gaming but I am currently playing games on my laptop because it's my best machine running Windows.
So, I am working on building that new gaming PC in my Build Critique thread, this is what it will be eventually used for.
The software setup here is Linux Mint Debian Edition (on the tri-monitors) and Windows 7 on an old scrap machine running on the TV. (will be the gaming PC on the TV soon).
The TV is a 40" Samsung LED TV, ceiling mounted above my middle monitor. This will be primarily used for gaming, streaming video, and Skype video conference calls.
I am really happy with how this turned out, it's pretty much exactly as I envisioned it would be when I bought the hardware on NewEgg.
Comments
Got any benchmarks on the new rig?
Thanks, and no the new rig is not built yet, this Windows 7 machine is temporary until I finish the build.
That looks like an awesome setup that you got there Kirk. I would of never guessed that you use Debian based on your screen shots in other posts. I all ways thought that you where running Ubuntu.
This is it here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6889102668
Yeah Linux Mint Debian Edition is a fork of Debian made by the Mint group which is sort of similar to Ubuntu in functionality. It wins out over Ubuntu to me because it maintains good privacy defaults (ie not creating a default looking glass that searches the web as you search your PC for files, etc) and it offers the MATE desktop interface out of the box.
The OS uses a hybrid of Linux Mint's own repositories and Debian's repositories. You can generally use Debian Testing compatible 3rd party repositories with LMDE.
The result is a stable secure desktop with much later packages than Ubuntu offers. Oh also LMDE is a semi-rolling distribution so you don't have to worry about jumping from LTS to LTS, just keep dist-upgrading and you'll always be up to date.