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I wish that 4:3 monitors would come back, my personal dev setup uses a 23" 16:9 monitor in the middle with one 17" 4:3 on each side for a total of three. Three

I wish that 4:3 monitors would come back, my personal dev setup uses a 23" 16:9 monitor in the middle with one 17" 4:3 on each side for a total of three. Three 16:9 monitors are too wide for me to work comfortably (have to turn both my body and my head) and two 16:9s have the bezel in the middle and require me to have my head skewed constantly when working. I've tried using vertically oriented 16:9 monitors on the side, but I find I need to move my head up and down too much for my tastes.

stetrain 5y ago
It's not quite 4:3 but LG has a new 16:18 monitor coming out soon: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/329996-lg-announces-monitor-with-crazy-1618-aspect-ratio https://www.extremetech.com/computing/329996-lg-announces-mo...
- wruza 5y ago
  The never ending issue with these monitors is that it’s almost always cheaper to just buy the same height and v-res 16:9 monitor and cut borders at the driver level. They try to squeeze every penny out of your non-16:9 demands. This entire x:y issue takes roots at OSes, which suck so much at window positioning out of box. Much easier and cheaper to use fancyzones or a similar tiling software and just ignore the wasted space, or use it only when needed.