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I gotta confess, as an IT guy I have never ever seen displayport in my life. Not a port, nor a cable. Which is especially weird given that I have 6 displays hooked up that technically use it without a single actual port.
Are you sure you know what displayport is?
Yeah. It's a video interface but I have never seen the physical port, as I've said I have 6 monitors hooked using it's signalling protocol, but all the physical connections are either type-c(DP alt mode) or eDP.
Most GPUs and monitors made in last 5 years have at least one.
Every single monitor I've seen that's built in the last 8ish years has at least one. All modern graphics cards do too. Are you sure you've not seen them?
They thought that was for Double Penetration.
If you've never seen that before, I've heard the internet has a lot of videos you can check out
Just checked, there are still brand new monitors on the market with just VGA+HDMI (e.g. MSI MP223, DELL SE2722H), but you'd really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel nowadays to find one. I think I actually might have a GPU with one of those lying around somewhere, thought, but does it even count if I never used one?
Fair enough. I just thought it had become pretty ubiquitous in the desktop ecosystem, just because HDMI licencing fees are egregious
This is statistically impossible, unless "IT guy" just means "computer nerd" rather than someone who works in an IT role.
I don’t think you should have been downvoted, but what is it you do? Remote monitoring? We deployed hundreds of monitors last summer and I swear I almost memorized the goddamn DisplayPort pinout.
Have you never seen a discrete GPU as an IT guy? A monitor? I kind of doubt you're in IT if not.