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Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by istjohn »

arendtio wrote: post #87

I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout. The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time. However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a bett…

I tried a vertical monitor for a day once, but I found I ended up holding my head at an uncomfortably high angle too much.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by phyrex »

arendtio wrote: post #87

I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout. The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time. However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a bett…

Could you explain why you like this better than a traditional multi monitor layout? And how wouldit compare to vertical monitors horizontally next to each other?

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by dijit »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #35

If anyone's really into "setups", I'd highly recommend checking out usesthis.com. There's some great discussion on why people like certain tools, and some high-profile people on there from all walks of tech life (writers, podcasters, musicians, mechanical engineers). Here's a few of my favorites: Aaron Schwartz: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/ Mike Hoye (Mozilla): https://usesthis.com/interviews/mhoye/…

The improvements section/conclusion in Aaron Schwartz article is actually very possible today.

>I wish all my hard drives were consolidated onto one big drive. I wish I had SoundSticks. I wish my G1 was much, much faster. I wish that Terminal would have built-in support for screen so that different screens would appear as tabs and it would auto-reconnect. I wish that there was decent todo management software that deeply integrated with my email. I wish that everyone had perfectionist levels of attention to detail.

Phones are much, much faster, NAS’s (synology for example) allow you to merge a whole bunch of drives on a network. And Iterm is integrated with tmux, which makes it feel supremely native.

Not sure about the todo or attention to detail though.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by LeoPanthera »

dope wrote: post #42
maxaf wrote: post #19

Please tell me you're stripping EXIF tags from all images; otherwise this is just a "rob these people now" list.

I'm not, I completely overlooked this :/ I'm adding this to the upload form now and I guess will have to go through and manually remove everyones exif data. Thanks for raising this.

You can easily do it with exiftool:

exiftool -all= "$@"

It's in most *nix repos.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by filoleg »

phyrex wrote: post #92
arendtio wrote: post #87

I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout. The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time. However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a bett…

Could you explain why you like this better than a traditional multi monitor layout? And how wouldit compare to vertical monitors horizontally next to each other?

For reading longer articles/text or even just code, I prefer it vastly. My current (work) setup is one landscape monitor in the middle and two portrait mode monitors on the sides. The only change I would personally make is add another landscape monitor right above my current one.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by filoleg »

istjohn wrote: post #91
arendtio wrote: post #87

I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout. The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time. However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a bett…

I tried a vertical monitor for a day once, but I found I ended up holding my head at an uncomfortably high angle too much.

Try using a monitor arm and angle that monitor in such a way at such a height, that you would not have to adjust your head along the vertical axis. It only works with monitors up to a certain size, though, which is the biggest limitation.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Post by arendtio »

phyrex wrote: post #92
arendtio wrote: post #87

I am a bit surprised there is no vertical multi-monitor setup there yet. I have my 2nd monitor above my first since a few years now and I don't want to go back to the traditional horizontal layout. The only thing I might change is adding more monitors or increasing sizes, but that isn't really a priority as I tend to have enough space most of the time. However, I love the idea, of this site as the photos offer a bett…

Could you explain why you like this better than a traditional multi monitor layout? And how wouldit compare to vertical monitors horizontally next to each other?

> Could you explain why you like this better than a traditional multi monitor layout?

With the (traditional) horizontal layout you have to turn your head or your complete body towards a monitor. With a vertical setup, you can always sit/stay in a symmetrical way towards your monitors and instead of turning your head you have to tilt it.

In the end, it all comes down to how your body fits into that setup, but I feel a lot more comfortable if I don't have to turn my head. Tilting just feels better (less asymmetrical stress on my shoulders when you keep your head in a fixed position).

> And how wouldit compare to vertical monitors horizontally next to each other?

I never worked with vertical monitors for a long time so far, but I guess three would be a better choice for me than two, as I could have one centered monitor. A pro for vertical monitors would be that at least they would reduce the angle I have to turn my head.

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