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I beg to differ. I can fit several more xterms side by side on a pixel screen than on any thinkpad. High DPI only becomes pointless if you scale everything up

by jlgreco 13y ago

I beg to differ. I can fit several more xterms side by side on a pixel screen than on any thinkpad. High DPI only becomes pointless if you scale everything up correspondingly. I don't do that. The expectation that a laptop have a screen with more pixels than a smartphone is not unreasonably high. Excepting less is absurd. I used a eeepc 1001px with a 1024x600 prior to getting a chromebook pixel, and I used a 1680x1050 T60p before that. I am done with that shit resolutions.

csmuk 13y ago
Yes but you can't read them without getting eyestrain. I have perhaps three terminal windows open max and use cwm. I've had old Dell 15" 1600x1200 laptops which aren't even near to that and that was virtually unusable. I'm now using a 14" 1440x900 and it's about right. Accepting less is fine. Eating all the burgers on the table because they are there is absurd.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  > "Yes but you can't read them without getting eyestrain." Maybe I'm working on borrowed time with young eyes, or maybe I work too close to my screen, but I certainly can. I am sitting here at work on a company T420 with a 14" screen at 1600x900. Laptop on my lap, back of the laptop at my knees with the screen tilted away from me and my body reclined away from it. Feet kicked up on another chair. ...I find this anything but satisfactory. I can get two decent vertical panes with tmux over putty, with three being possible for some tasks. At home I frequently do double this, or more.