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

On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 00:02:26 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

For computers, [widescreen] leads to wasted space.

I’m old enough to remember those giant third-party monitors for the
Macintosh, from companies like Radius and RasterOps. Remember that tiny
built-in 9” screen? Well, these add-on displays came in portrait A4 and
landscape A3 sizes.

For those to whom international-standard paper sizes do not come naturally
(stop giggling, Marc), A3 is obtained by putting two A4-sized rectangles
adjoining on their long end. This means a landscape A3 screen lets you
view two portrait-mode A4 pages side by side. That was about a widescreen
7:5 ratio.

Handy for those doing layouts for magazines, brochures and what have you.

Remember how the Macintosh (together with Adobe’s PostScript) invented
“desktop publishing”? Yes, this was how it was done.