Just a different perspective - Depends on what you do. Personally I use a browser and some xterms -- that's it for the most part. I have a 27" 1920x1080 at hom

Just a different perspective - Depends on what you do. Personally I use a browser and some xterms -- that's it for the most part. I have a 27" 1920x1080 at home and it's terrible. I usually use less than 60% of the available screen estate for displaying things. It's much too large (have to move my head from left to right inconveniently because my window manager places windows across the whole screen) and too much light is hitting my eyes from the unused areas. At work I have a single 19" 5:4 1280x1024 LCD screen with ok colors / good contrast and I love it - just the right size. I use default keyboard shortcuts for window and workspace switching (it's mostly either browser or two vertically maximized xterms), works perfectly for me.