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666JTK666:
Howdy I have downloaded deb 12 and am planing to see if it will play nice with my external monitor if it does I plan to test MC with it 2nd thing.
are there any suggestions for max compatibility with MC ?

Awesome Donkey:
Actually, even though Debian is the only distro JRiver officially supports I would actually recommend using Ubuntu instead of Debian, it's a little easier and it allows easy use of the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

mwillems:

--- Quote from: 666JTK666 on October 01, 2023, 10:39:27 pm ---Howdy I have downloaded deb 12 and am planing to see if it will play nice with my external monitor if it does I plan to test MC with it 2nd thing.
are there any suggestions for max compatibility with MC ?

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I think bob uses debian with xfce as his test setup, so if you wanted to go with Debian it might be worth trying xfce as the desktop.  As A.D. says, ubuntu is a bit easier to get started with especially if you use an nvidia card, but vanilla debian does work very well too in my own experience.

bob:
I develop with debian and xfce as the base system on all platforms.
That said I have used ubuntu for testing on old Macbooks I have laying around. There are a few oddities that I don't like on ubuntu's default WM like being unable to move the MC standard window partially offscreen but I imagine that's tweakable.

avid:
I abandoned stock Ubuntu, as MC did not like Wayland. None of the MCC or MCWS mechanisms to control the window would work (minimize, maximize, restore, change view). I think Wayland required UI (mouse) interaction to do this - presumably for security reasons. So using the display with only MCWS control was a no-no.

The first and only alternative I tried was Kubuntu (which uses KDE), and that works well enough. Although black-screen hangs meant that I eventually had to take out my Nvidia card and use motherboard graphics instead. I am sure that there are other, more mainstream, options. But that is my experience.

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