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What makes that screen ratio non professional?

twelvechairs 3y ago
Writing (including code and word documents) tends to push the vertical bounds of screenspace rather than horizontal. Media (widescreen cinema) is more horizontal.
- echelon 3y ago
  Side-by-side is horizontal. I'd like three terminals or code editor windows side by side. I don't care about the vertical space as much.
  - locusofself 3y ago
    exactly. even just comparing a diff side by side sucks on most laptops.
perardi 3y ago
A 16:9 screen is too short when working on 16:9 video. It is really nice to have video span, if not the entire viewport, most of it, with the timeline down below. 16:10 gives you a nice bit of control area. But 3:2 is even better. Hell, give me a 5:4 screen—I live and die in Figma all day, working on mobile app mockups. Which are very tall, obviously, and get awfully small on these HDTV-ish aspect ratios.
- Sunspark 3y ago
  You could just rotate your monitor 90 degrees and change the orientation from landscape to portrait in the desktop.
  - bhaney 3y ago
    Somewhat hard to do with a laptop
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    It's a laptop.
    - belltaco 3y ago
      So? https://preview.redd.it/would-putting-my-laptop-like-this-harm-it-im-trying-to-save-v0-uodmsoje8y0a1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0f39a0dcd543b27393b1d1b043098c1979aa3fb0 https://preview.redd.it/would-putting-my-laptop-like-this-ha... :)
  - perardi 3y ago
    Except this still isn’t great with a 16:9 aspect ratio…well I guess 9:16 now…display. It’s still too damn narrow. Yeah, I get plenty of vertical space, but then the Figma chrome gets jammed into teeny little strips along the sidebar. This solution does better in Adobe applications, where you can break panels out of the parent window…but still, just, no, 16:9, too skinny, too gawky, give me closer to the Golden Ratio.
bjoli 3y ago
While I found your question funny, I must say that a 4:3 (or 3:2) ratio allows for better use of screen estate for a lot of work cases. I write a some music arrangements, and being able to view a larger vertical part of a score without having it zoomed out is a big benefit. I also prefer it for programming. I cap my lines at either GNU lines or 92, meaning horizontal space is never a problem. Getting more vertical space in all Windows when I split my screen in 4 or 1+2 is nice.

Writing (including code and word documents) tends to push the vertical bounds of screenspace rather than horizontal. Media (widescreen cinema) is more horizontal.

echelon 3y ago
Side-by-side is horizontal. I'd like three terminals or code editor windows side by side. I don't care about the vertical space as much.
- locusofself 3y ago
  exactly. even just comparing a diff side by side sucks on most laptops.

perardi 3y ago

A 16:9 screen is too short when working on 16:9 video. It is really nice to have video span, if not the entire viewport, most of it, with the timeline down below. 16:10 gives you a nice bit of control area. But 3:2 is even better. Hell, give me a 5:4 screen—I live and die in Figma all day, working on mobile app mockups. Which are very tall, obviously, and get awfully small on these HDTV-ish aspect ratios.

Sunspark 3y ago
You could just rotate your monitor 90 degrees and change the orientation from landscape to portrait in the desktop.
- bhaney 3y ago
  Somewhat hard to do with a laptop
- IshKebab 3y ago
  It's a laptop.
  - belltaco 3y ago
    So? https://preview.redd.it/would-putting-my-laptop-like-this-harm-it-im-trying-to-save-v0-uodmsoje8y0a1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0f39a0dcd543b27393b1d1b043098c1979aa3fb0 https://preview.redd.it/would-putting-my-laptop-like-this-ha... :)
- perardi 3y ago
  Except this still isn’t great with a 16:9 aspect ratio…well I guess 9:16 now…display. It’s still too damn narrow. Yeah, I get plenty of vertical space, but then the Figma chrome gets jammed into teeny little strips along the sidebar. This solution does better in Adobe applications, where you can break panels out of the parent window…but still, just, no, 16:9, too skinny, too gawky, give me closer to the Golden Ratio.

bjoli 3y ago

While I found your question funny, I must say that a 4:3 (or 3:2) ratio allows for better use of screen estate for a lot of work cases. I write a some music arrangements, and being able to view a larger vertical part of a score without having it zoomed out is a big benefit. I also prefer it for programming. I cap my lines at either GNU lines or 92, meaning horizontal space is never a problem. Getting more vertical space in all Windows when I split my screen in 4 or 1+2 is nice.