Hello, I cant seem to find any upto date info on this topic and all the old threads seem to suggest that these features do not work well on linux.

I am looking to get a 144hz monitor that is at least 2k in resolution. I have an Nvidia graphics card and KDE Plasma. I want to run two monitors and the 2nd monitors is 60hz and 1080p. Would this cause issues? Is there anything I need to consider when looking for a monitor?

  • PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    On my PC at home I’m running KDE Plasma on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with two monitors: 1440p 240 Hz, 4k 60 Hz. Both are connected via displayport to an RTX2080. It works perfectly fine for me.

    A while back, I used Linux Mint on the same system and it was a headache, where it would sometimes boot to a blank screen and I would have to restart a random number of times before it would work. I never did figure out the underlying cause, it just went away when I changed distros for other reasons…

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      1 year ago

      Moving from Mint to Tumbleweed probably solved your issues because of the huge leap in kernel/driver/software versions. The default settings could have been different too, but I’m guessing it had more to do with more up to date software.

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      1 year ago

      Are you using wayland? As far as I’m aware X11 can’t handle different refresh rates for different monitors so it defaults to the lower one.

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      1 year ago

      Ah perfect this is exactly the vouch I was looking for. Thank you