• faceula@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Every interaction I’ve ever had with display port has resulted in me rage quitting. Did it ever do anything?

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      1 hour ago

      My only interaction with DisplayPort was this:

      [bought a new monitor]
      Oooh, this one has two HDMI inputs and a DisplayPort input. I’ll probably just need the HDMI inputs, but whatever.

      [got my late father’s PC and decided to install Debian on it]
      So wait, this doesn’t do HDMI, it just has VGA output. The only VGA monitor I have at hand kinda sucks. Oh, wait, what the heck is that? Is that a DisplayPort? Where did I put the cable?

      (Yeah, the PC works great, only problem is that it defaults to VGA output and will only switch to DP after several seconds, which means I never see the rad GRUB screen. So far, mostly used this PC to rip my CD collection to FLAC, because it has a DVD drive.)

    • Syndication@lemmy.today
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      3 hours ago

      Display port? What’s wrong with it? Only thing I can think of is it is sometimes hard to get out if you can’t squeeze the cable to unsecure it.

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      4 hours ago

      What? I have been using it as my preferred video port for over a decade. How could it possibly make you rage quit?

    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      Eh? DisplayPort is great, non-proprietary HDMI that we should all be using instead. I use 4x DisplayPort connections at work daily.