Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by ghuntley » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 3:41 PM UTC

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
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Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by Fred27 » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:03 PM UTC

I can't see that being practical. My setup for the last few years has been 2 ordinary monitors - one portrait and one landscape. I'll often read on the portrait and code on the landscape. It works for me. Give it a try.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by totoglazer » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

Fred27 wrote: post #2

I can't see that being practical. My setup for the last few years has been 2 ordinary monitors - one portrait and one landscape. I'll often read on the portrait and code on the landscape. It works for me. Give it a try.

One almost wonders if practicality wasn’t the objective of the exercise. Almost.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by politician » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

totoglazer wrote: post #3

Fred27 wrote: post #2

I can't see that being practical. My setup for the last few years has been 2 ordinary monitors - one portrait and one landscape. I'll often read on the portrait and code on the landscape. It works for me. Give it a try.

One almost wonders if practicality wasn’t the objective of the exercise. Almost.

Truly a missed opportunity to demo Ski Free running on the last orientation.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by ziddoap » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

Fred27 wrote: post #2

I can't see that being practical. My setup for the last few years has been 2 ordinary monitors - one portrait and one landscape. I'll often read on the portrait and code on the landscape. It works for me. Give it a try.

With the only listed advantage being "longest line length" and disadvantage being "webcam starts sliding away", I'm shocked that you think a 22 degree rotation isn't practical.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by kevmo314 » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

Extra points if your curved ultrawide is so wide that putting it in portrait has it curving above your head.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by nxpnsv » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

22 degrees, also known as the rotation of kings. Because it's majestic.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by yehudalouis » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

Sort of unrelated:

The picture of the monitor rotated 22 degrees contains a sticky note with what appears to be some sort of token/key/password.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by vbo » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

Fred27 wrote: post #2

I can't see that being practical. My setup for the last few years has been 2 ordinary monitors - one portrait and one landscape. I'll often read on the portrait and code on the landscape. It works for me. Give it a try.

I second this. A portrait monitor does wonders for coding (for me); My office setup consists of two portrait monitors plus my laptop screen in the middle and this works very well when multiple repos are open at the same time. I tend not to mess about with the windows displayed on the vertical monitors so I always know where to look if I need to change something (ie, backend on the left, frontend on the right). I've been planning to look into tiling window managers to see if I can optimize this further but it might be going a bit too far.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by tapvt » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

Fred27 wrote: post #2

I can't see that being practical. My setup for the last few years has been 2 ordinary monitors - one portrait and one landscape. I'll often read on the portrait and code on the landscape. It works for me. Give it a try.

I use two moderately sized monitors, in portrait mode, as well as a larger monitor, in landscape between.

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