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This is a monitor that I took from the office where I have a larger desk that allows me to sit around 100 cm from it. ATM it's around 75 cm from my eyes and it'
by Toutouxc 6y ago
This is a monitor that I took from the office where I have a larger desk that allows me to sit around 100 cm from it. ATM it's around 75 cm from my eyes and it's a little too close.
I don't use scaling, so it's basically like having four 21.5" FullHD panels, and the distance isn't that problematic because of the pixel density, but mainly because of the fact that it occupies my whole visual field and it feels a bit weird.
I have it hooked to a vanilla Ubuntu machine with GNOME, nothing special. I usually put RubyMine (I do Ruby on Rails) with all the bells and whistles and sidebars and toolbars on the left side of the screen, full height, which gives me a FullHD code editor and a FullHD debugger window, and on the left side I have a browser window with a terminal or a JS console. And some Spotify peeking behind it or something. This gets me through the whole day, I don't need any i3-style black magic to handle my 5 windows.
The screen has been sitting in the office for quite a while. People tried it for a bit and went back to their 3X" 4K panels, but I fell in love with it immediately.
Actually the "having to turn your head" is the most interesting aspect. Yes, I do have to turn my head a lot. I have to turn my head and sometimes move my whole body when I need to see some detail somewhere and I like that about this setup. Not sure whether it's ergonomic or healthy but I like that I can physically move myself further left or right and focus on one part of the screen.
Unfortunately, I use a PS4 for gaming and my laptops are an iGPU-equipped Dell and a M1 Macbook Air, so 3D gaming in 4K is out of the question.