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> 16:9 screens are cramped — at least compared to other options. I usually can’t comfortably work in multiple windows side by side without zooming out or doing
by dasKrokodil 6y ago
> 16:9 screens are cramped — at least compared to other options. I usually can’t comfortably work in multiple windows side by side without zooming out or doing a ton of vertical scrolling, and when I’m multitasking in Chrome, the tabs get tiny very quickly.
This doesn't really add up. When working with windows side by side, horizontal space is beneficial. And the tabs in the browser will also have more space on a wider aspect ratio. You can't have it both ways - on a wider screen, you'll have more space to put windows side by side and have a lot of tabs, on a tall screen you need to do less vertical scrolling within a window.
- mackrevinack 6y agoyea doesn't make sense. maybe they are using a small sized screen and are getting confused by that. personally on a laptop i prefer 3:2 for most things but on a larger monitor i like 16:9 since you can have two programs side by side. on a 16:9 smaller laptop screen, having things like two file browsers side by side works ok, but having programs with lots of ui, adobe premier or photoshop, not so much
- claudiawerner 6y agoFor certain tasks like programming, I usually find myself wanting a bigger height. Otherwise I'm opening the same file in another buffer to the side just to see two sections of a (long) function at once. I want more continuous code on my screen, not a side-by-side where instead of looking up or down (the way programs are textually structured in reality) I'm looking left and right.
- je42 6y agoI have execution/test results on the left and code on the right. hence for me 16:9 is beneficial.
- pseudalopex 6y agoMost 16:9 laptops have thick bezels. They could fit a taller screen in the same space. Common 16:10 resolutions have the same number of columns as common 16:9 resolutions.