I don't know why this article is only about laptops. It's difficult to buy a square desktop monitor these days too. I've been complaining about it for years. Widescreen is a terrible shape for code. I don't need more horizontal space, I need more lines. What am I going to use horizontal space for? People say turn the monitor vertical but that's horrible too. The screen is designed to be viewed at a certain angle for a start. 4:3 is perfect for me to be able to have two columns of code filling the entire screen.
Widescreen laptops are dumb
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#32What a moronic article. More space is always better. On Windows/Linux just chuck the taskbar on the left/right of the screen and enjoy the extra visible space. The shit some people complain about , unbelieavable......
It's not more space. My 4:3 monitor has a resolution of 1600x1200. That's 180 lines of pixels more than a 1080p screen which is about 13 lines of text.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn’t work well for toolbars which have text labels ( like bookmarks or a windows style taskbar).
It works better for bookmarks, since you can fit more entries in the list before you have to scroll.
Good point. I tend to use folders so on a bar they’d be a menu that would hide and then show. But for things like reading lists where I want something linear and present, the sidebar is nice.
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#34I find 4:3 too square for both tablets and laptops as it seriously detracts from watching widescreen video content such as nearly all newer movies and TV shows, but 16:9 does have seem a bit too wide compared to height, especially on tablets when you try to use it in portrait mode and it seems ridiculously tall. I've found 16:10 to be a better than 16:9, and while I haven't had a 3:2 laptop, the 3:2 Nook HD+ from a few years back is probably my favorite table screen(shame about the rest of the tablet) in that it didn't compromise movies too much, but wasn't awkward in portrait.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn’t work well for toolbars which have text labels ( like bookmarks or a windows style taskbar).
Not sure what you're thinking of but check out the Tree Style Tabs browse plugin to see what they mean. Tabs with text work perfectly.
I mean that you need something more than 100px wide. So it cuts into the page space more aggressively. It’s a good use of space but unfortunately most designs do not account for this very well in my experience.
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#36Why do people say 16:10 when they could say 8:5? (Or worse, 19.5:9 over 39:18?) this one of those human things? Do you just really like numbers close to 9?
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#37Well, I really like being able to put a code editor on the left and then a browser, terminal, document, LaTeX output on the right of the screen without them becoming too constrained horizontally. But probably this is a very particular use case?
Yes I love being able to have 3 screen splits on each monitor so that I don't have to move any windows when I need to look up some reference.
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#38Happy to see the Surface line called out there, love the 3:2 screen on my Surface Book. So much more usable space than the traditional 16:9/10.
Really wish they did a 15 inch.
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#39Users who state others use cases as irrelevant are dumb.
As a router jockey, I use widescreen (laptops) for multiple terminal sessions, iterm2 with 4 or 6 80x40 cli windows.
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#40What a moronic article. More space is always better. On Windows/Linux just chuck the taskbar on the left/right of the screen and enjoy the extra visible space. The shit some people complain about , unbelieavable......
shape != size