Mint 20.3 max screen resolution

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Re: Mint 20.3 max screen resolution

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I wasn't suggesting it did, but the OS must have a finite limit as to the max it can allow any video card to operate at surely?

Anyway as I have already said, Ill forget my question and consider this subject closed.
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Re: Mint 20.3 max screen resolution

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john155 wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 5:58 am I wasn't suggesting it did, but the OS must have a finite limit as to the max it can allow any video card to operate at surely?
Why must it have a limit? What purpose would there be in having a limit?

No one wants to pay good money for hardware and then have an operating system prevent them from using the full capabilities of that hardware.
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Re: Mint 20.3 max screen resolution

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john155 wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 5:58 am the OS must have a finite limit
Only assumed, this would be the case and a user invests much money for a hardware (CPU and screen) to reach resolutions, which until then were not doable, and the vendor advertises with this feature and takes much money for it and this new resolution would be beyond this "finite limit", what then? Of course the user would say: "damn OS, it gives a limit, which technically is senseless." Your sentence makes only sense, if the word "not" gets inserted: the OS must not have a finale limit.

Strange turn in your demand: First you say, that there must be a limit and you demand it's documentation for a hardware-irrespective resolution and now you demand the limit, which despite your first demand does not exist.

The simple result is this: There is no hardware-irrespective limit and there is no logic to "invent" such a castration.
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