I started with Mint Mate but now use Mint Cinnamon

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I started with Mint Mate but now use Mint Cinnamon. I run Windows mainly in VM to use MS Office for things it does better and CorelDraw for diagrams etc. I also explore other distros in Virtualbox with the intention of adding a second distro to boot into at some point

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Welcome leafydiode! Glad to see you joined our happy little group. What drew you to Mint-Cinnamon?

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I first tried to use Suse Linux around 2000 but found it hard so when I chose a version to use at home I opted for an easy to use and install version with Mint Mate which also suited my hardware. I upgraded my computer this year and Cinnamon was a natural improvement to use for Linux. I was hoping for good dual screen use but this is not as straightforward as I had hoped.

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Hey @leafydiode
I am not super fan about using Linux Mint, but nice you using Cinnamon.
How do you feel about dual boot? I can’t use dual boot, I prefer having 1 specific workflow just in one computer. Maybe personal taste (?)

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Hi ricky89
I had to use windows for nearly 20 years from 3.11 to XP
I only use dual boot now to keep up to date with Windows
I run a few windows apps in a VM.

Most of the time I use Linux for everything else

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I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition for ten years, but I have not tried dual monitors yet.

What sort of issue did you encounter with dual monitors?

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Hi - thanks for your interest.
my monitor is 2k and my TV (2nd monitor)is HD
I can only get them to mirror at same resolution in mint cinnamon
If I boot into Windows on same hardware it recognises both display resolutions

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My limited understanding of multi-monitor setups is that you have a choice of ‘mirroring’ or ‘extending’ the desktop. Mirroring does exactly what it sounds like, as both monitors display the same image. Extending allows additional screen real estate to spread the windows across the monitors.

Without scaling, mirroring is probably limited to the same resolution on both monitors, even when those monitors differ in capabilities.

On a single monitor, I have experimented with Linux Mint’s fractional scaling, and each time it ends in a crashed Cinnamon ending all of the running apps. Perhaps it will be different with multiple monitors, but I do not know.

Perhaps this will help:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/mirror-monitors-different-resolutions

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