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Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by dsp_person »

raingros wrote: post #7

Maybe it would be smarter to use one of the these? Samsung 43" M70A 4K UHD Smart Monitor https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/smart-monitors...

+1 to that. Also get 120Hz if you can (but has it's own headaches to solve, including e.g. HDMI 2.1 isn't supported in open source drivers).

I recently started using a LG 42" C2. Coming from two 27" monitors at 2560x1440, the 42" 3840x2160 is about the same pixel density and only 12.5% more pixels total

  (3840*2160/(2*2560*1440))
The 42" screen is like portrait mode on demand. Whenever I tried portrait mode on the 27" screens, it was nice sometimes but usually felt limited in width. With the 42" a quick tile of a window to either side (Super+Left/Right) gives you the height of portrait mode, plus more width (and adjustable to your liking).

Also for those now spare 27" monitors kicking around, I grabbed a vertical monitor mount to stack them (both landscape, stacked vertically) next to the 42". This has proven to be even better and I love having the zones this creates.

Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by lifthrasiir »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #8

The 22° solution is just missing a triangular window implementation, or perhaps a "split diagonally" window view option.

I do think the optimal screen is more or less a triangle or a semi-circle. A rotated rectangular screen is a very crude approximation.

Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by _the_inflator »

therein wrote: post #4
linecept wrote: post #2

45deg makes a hell lot of sense. No line breaks needed anymore.

I thought you were making a clever joke until I visited the link. https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/images/PXL_20211202_035205492.... Something about this is hilarious.

Watching this picture, I am desperately waiting for some box2d animation to appear.

Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by nordsieck »

raingros wrote: post #7

Maybe it would be smarter to use one of the these? Samsung 43" M70A 4K UHD Smart Monitor https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/smart-monitors...

I really wish that someone would make a 43" TV/monitor in 8k.

The smallest that I've seen is 55" and that just too big to be comfortably used as a monitor.

Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by SSLy »

winrid wrote: post #15
raingros wrote: post #7

Maybe it would be smarter to use one of the these? Samsung 43" M70A 4K UHD Smart Monitor https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/smart-monitors...

I liked my Samsung ultra wide until it started to hurt my eyes from the terrible PWM modulation...

How do I check whether my display is having fine PWM modulation?

Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by xxs »

huytersd wrote: post #21

When has line length ever been an issue? That 22 degree thing is hell. You can see like 5 lines, it would drive me insane.

>When has line length ever been an issue?

The early 90s - even the glorious VGA didn't have much large than 80 columns, it took VESA to bring the 132×43 text mode. Then early '00, with whoever managed to come with the extreme anti-pattern of having extremely long class names in Java, 1024x768 was not enough by far (and 800x600 was a joke).

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