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I think using this would be a pain in the ass in Windows, becayse the start button and the start menu is at the bottom-left corner... And you’ll probably strain

I think using this would be a pain in the ass in Windows, becayse the start button and the start menu is at the bottom-left corner... And you’ll probably strain your neck easily. Thinking about it, no one really thought about a desktop environment optimized for ultrawide displays, which makes me hesitant to buy one of these (apart from the problem that it takes up too much desk space)

NamTaf 8y ago
I put my start menu up the centre of my two side-by-side monitors. If I were using this, I'd use the dual 16x9 mode and do the same. It has a couple of advantages, despite probably looking a little odd on a single monitor: 1) It is central to the screen real estate, meaning that I'm not dragging my mouse across a suburb to get to the start menu 2) It frees up vertical real estate, which is crucial when working on two side-by-side documents on 16x9 res. Even at 16x10, there's an excess of width compared to 2x A4 sheets. Thus, I want to maximise vertical real estate in exchange for horizontal real estate. Having said that, anyone who uses such a monitor probably just hits winkey and types their application in search because they're likely power-user enough.
saltcured 8y ago
I use two 28 inch 4K monitors side by side with Linux on my workstation, and there is a bit of that issue. I ended up cranking up the acceleration on my pointer input to easily toss the cursor around the whole desktop, and sometimes find myself annoyed with detail work or trying to drag very small targets and instead clicking something else nearby. Another issue is that after returning to the screen after some time, I can sometimes lose track of where the cursor is and have to thrash it around to cause enough motion for me to easily find it on the huge work area.
jsmith99 8y ago
What does the mouse have to do with the start menu? Hit the keyboard button, type first few letters, hit Enter.

NamTaf 8y ago

I put my start menu up the centre of my two side-by-side monitors. If I were using this, I'd use the dual 16x9 mode and do the same. It has a couple of advantages, despite probably looking a little odd on a single monitor: 1) It is central to the screen real estate, meaning that I'm not dragging my mouse across a suburb to get to the start menu 2) It frees up vertical real estate, which is crucial when working on two side-by-side documents on 16x9 res. Even at 16x10, there's an excess of width compared to 2x A4 sheets. Thus, I want to maximise vertical real estate in exchange for horizontal real estate. Having said that, anyone who uses such a monitor probably just hits winkey and types their application in search because they're likely power-user enough.

saltcured 8y ago

I use two 28 inch 4K monitors side by side with Linux on my workstation, and there is a bit of that issue. I ended up cranking up the acceleration on my pointer input to easily toss the cursor around the whole desktop, and sometimes find myself annoyed with detail work or trying to drag very small targets and instead clicking something else nearby. Another issue is that after returning to the screen after some time, I can sometimes lose track of where the cursor is and have to thrash it around to cause enough motion for me to easily find it on the huge work area.

jsmith99 8y ago

What does the mouse have to do with the start menu? Hit the keyboard button, type first few letters, hit Enter.