Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-06, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-06, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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On 05/06/2025 18:11, Nuno Silva wrote:
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But I suppose widescreen displays make up most
of what can be usually purchased these days?

 
The market for LCD panels is overwhelmingly TVs at the top end and smart
phones or fondleslabs at the bottom
 
Tooling up for something suitable for workstations would be extremely
expensive.
WE live off the droppings from the TV markets table...
 
And that tends to be the HD aspect ratio screen

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Indeed, and this fact is *also* why the computer LCD world very quickly
went from 4:3 aspect screens to 16:9 (or if lucky, 16:10) aspect
screens.
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The economies of scale from using LCD panels that are "TV aspect ratio"
is just too cheap to ignore.

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No problem.  I have two monitors on my machine; the older one is 4:3 and
the newer one is 16:9.  Both are filled up with xterm windows plus an
instance of VirtualBox running Windows XP.  Move and resize until everything
tiles nicely...

 
When my Trinitron CRT died, I went out of my way to get a 16:10 ratio
monitor instead of 16:9.
 
I dislike widescreen immensely. Even widescreen TV's are overrated.

"Widescreen" has always been "chasing the movies" because the mouth
breathers can't understand why their latest remake of X has those black
bars on the top and bottom of the picture.

4:3 was the original (way back) movie aspect ratio.  When TV was
created, it copied 4:3 because that's what the movies were set to.  The
result was the movies then felt they had to "1 up" to maintain their
reason for being and they became 16:9 aspect.  That was, until TV's
went 16:9 and the movies had then gone "ultra wide" to maintain their 1
upsmanship.  With the result that the mouth breathers now have to
sometimes contend with black bars on top, or on the sides, of whatever
they are streaming at the moment, depending upon what year it was
filmed.