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Larger monitors? I worked off a laptop for 15 years. I was a lot more mobile, and the laptop was my primary display. 2020, with travel stopped, I got a deskt

Larger monitors? I worked off a laptop for 15 years. I was a lot more mobile, and the laptop was my primary display. 2020, with travel stopped, I got a desktop and couple of large monitors (32"). I still don't feel terribly more 'productive' with multiple monitors (years of experience on single monitor only!) but the large monitors help a lot. Separately, since I primarily work on a desktop, it's harder to just 'work' whenever/wherever I am, so there's more of a "I'm done now" aspect at the end of a day. I still have laptop, and can do stuff on it when I need to, but over the last couple of years, that's been far far less than it was 10 years ago. I use glasses, but for driving only.

wing-_-nuts 3y ago
I'm looking to get a 32" 4k monitor as my external monitor. What sort of scaling do you use? I hear most folks go with 150% but that puts one right back at 1440p real estate.
- lowercased 3y ago
  I normally still keep it at 2560x1440. Actually, looking at it, it doesn't go higher (not a 4k, missed that when purchasing it). My other one (well, it's not 32" - 27") I toggle between 1680 and 2160. Even when I have 'more' real estate on the 27", I sometimes end up zooming the screen sometimes anyway to get closer. I've had a couple friend rave about their ultra-wides, and I might get just one ultra-wide to replace the two I have.
- necovek 3y ago
  With Linux, you can get into those "tweaks" tools to separately set lower scaling (I go with 125%), but slightly larger fonts: less real-estate lost, still readable. On Mac, as it has no subpixel rendering, going with anything less than 4K results in lack of smooth lines and jaggy fonts. If there's one drawback, it's that rendering 4K can tax your hardware (eg even full screen 4K Google Meet on pre-Iris Xe laptop will keep your CPU pegged at 80%).

wing-_-nuts 3y ago

I'm looking to get a 32" 4k monitor as my external monitor. What sort of scaling do you use? I hear most folks go with 150% but that puts one right back at 1440p real estate.

lowercased 3y ago
I normally still keep it at 2560x1440. Actually, looking at it, it doesn't go higher (not a 4k, missed that when purchasing it). My other one (well, it's not 32" - 27") I toggle between 1680 and 2160. Even when I have 'more' real estate on the 27", I sometimes end up zooming the screen sometimes anyway to get closer. I've had a couple friend rave about their ultra-wides, and I might get just one ultra-wide to replace the two I have.
necovek 3y ago
With Linux, you can get into those "tweaks" tools to separately set lower scaling (I go with 125%), but slightly larger fonts: less real-estate lost, still readable. On Mac, as it has no subpixel rendering, going with anything less than 4K results in lack of smooth lines and jaggy fonts. If there's one drawback, it's that rendering 4K can tax your hardware (eg even full screen 4K Google Meet on pre-Iris Xe laptop will keep your CPU pegged at 80%).