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My 2020 desk setup

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Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by mech422 »

bloopernova wrote: post #79
mech422 wrote: post #38

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I have the opposite problem... I have bad eyes, and use HUGE fonts and can basically only get 1 window per monitor... so I have 3 monitors setup: middle for editor left for browser/docs right for email, slack, irc

Similar to you, I've had to increase text sizes gradually over the past decade. Currently I have 3 monitors, from left to right: Portrait 1080x1920 22" Dell. Landscape 4K LG. Landscape 4K LG. Plus the macbook pro screen, but I hardly ever put stuff on it. I'm not a fan of the LG monitors I got, model "27UD68-W" in 27 inch. The standby light is bright white and flashes slowly, you have to switch the screen off to stop…

>Similar to you, I've had to increase text sizes gradually over the past decade. Currently I have 3 monitors, from left to right

I find using a dark themes for everything really helps...Maybe I'm returning to my roots, but I use a lot of Ambers, Greens and Yellows for good contrast without blinding myself. If your a VI(m) user, I found the 'elflord' colorscheme comes pre-installed on a lot of machines (just ':colorscheme elflord' to try it..) Its a decent starting point.

On the other hand, I never seem to have enough light on my workbenches. I've fallen in love with ultra-bright LED fixtures from Home Depot for work area lighting... Dam screws get smaller ever year! (extendable magnetic 'wand' is awesome for finding them when you drop them...)

> I'm not a fan of the LG monitors I got, model "27UD68-W" in 27 inch.

I run 3 x LG 27UK650_600. Most of my gaming tends to be MMORPG stuff, so I don't need anything more then 60Hz. But I am wondering how they'll handle CyberPunk 2077

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by bradlys »

hocuspocus wrote: post #99
bluedino wrote: post #49

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Is there no way to use an LG 5K? The bad thing about the 8K is needing a $500 video card which also means it's not an option for laptop users (I guess you could with an eGPU

The blog author is using a GTX 1060, that's a $400 video card that came out nearly 4 years ago. Today a And I don't see why a laptop with a proper GPU and TB3 dock couldn't drive it either.

He states he uses a 2070 now.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by bradlys »

bluedino wrote: post #11

8K monitor sounded ridiculous until I realized that's basically Retina @ 32-34"

It's still ridiculous. The only people I see using these monitors to their full ability are sitting less than a foot away from the monitor. Even then, kinda overkill.

If you sit really close to your monitor then whatever. Can't imagine it's good for posture or your eyes to be focusing so close so often.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by bradlys »

jseliger wrote: post #58
mhd wrote: post #56

That's a lot of money between screen and GPU just to get crisper fonts (as the rest of the GUI is scaled x3 and thus you don't get that much more screen real estate). Is this really worth it for you? I regularly switch between a 5k iMac and regular 1920x1200 display, and sure, I can see pixels, but I don't find myself caring that much.

Considering how many hours a day he likely uses his machine, it may work out to something like the difference between a few cents and 10 cents an hour.

That's only going to be true if the $4000 extra they spent is used for 40,000+ hours. It's likely closer to be a dollar an hour more for slightly crisper text. (Assuming they use it full time for 2 years)

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by mech422 »

packetslave wrote: post #110
mech422 wrote: post #39

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I got one of their 'freestyle' keyboards years ago.. complete crap - I swear its rubber dome switches :-P I got an ErgoDox EZ last year, put some nice heavy kaihl box switches in it...now I just gotta find time to learn it (and dvorak/colemak). Currently using a Vortex Cypher with the split spacebar, I tore down and rebuild - new switches, added leds (south facing mounts so they're useless but I figured I'd try). and…

There's a HUGE difference between the Kinesis Advantage and the Freestyle line. The Advantage2 uses MX Browns. I tried to love my Ergodox, but I've spent way too many years with the scooped keybed of the Kinesis.

btw - have you seen/tried anything like the 'tractyl' [0] or ultimate hacking keyboard[1] ? I used to use a trackball full-time, and I'm wondering how well a lil 'thumball' works...

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/dk9b34...

[1] https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by soccerdave »

secure wrote: post #7
ajross wrote: post #2

"Probably another macbook setup" "Oh, nope, lots of terminals." "Hey, is that i3?" Then I realized who the author was. Honestly: I tried i3 and it wasn't for me. The psychology of slightly overlapping windows (i.e. "just put this over here, out of the way but still visible" as a way of making a physical reminder for myself) is just too much part of my mental model to give up.

Have you tried stacking mode? The title bar will still be visible, while the window is out of the way. See it in action if you zoom into my monitor on https://michael.stapelberg.ch/Bilder/2020-05-22-desk-setup.j... That works for me, but I understand it’s not for everyone :)

Also want to give you a big thank you for creating i3. After using it for a long time I can’t imagine going back to a setup without it. I almost always need 2 windows side by side and it makes that workflow so effortless.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by mindslight »

zenlot wrote: post #101
StavrosK wrote: post #74

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Thank you! That looks very nice, unfortunately I'm on Linux, but something like that is bound to exist.

Try i3 as a Window manager. Put every app in a separate single window, and instead of alt-tab you use, e.g: alt+1 terminal, alt+2 browser, etc... You can have as much workspaces as you need and assign applications to specific workspace. This way I always know where every app or category of app exists. And this mostly works on default i3 config, no learning curve.

I started off using Alt F1-F12 (like the console), but I've found zero problems using bare F1-F12 with no modifier.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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