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

On 2025-06-14, Marc Haber wrote:

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-08, Marc Haber wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Widescreen always felt a gimmick to me.

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I find it interesting how many old men here praise themselves for not
needing the advances that we have made since 1984.
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For computers, it leads to wasted space.
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Open up many webpages and notice how much blank space is on the sides.
I've just gone to news.com.au, and HALF the screen is just blank white
space.
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Mobiles are portrait, heavily so, desktops widescreen, heavily so, so
this results in just a mismatch.

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On the other hand, THAT sounds like the only thing you ever use is a
web browser.
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I like it to have three shells side by side without covering each
other. I like it to easily fit a shell at the side of the browser
displying the docs without covering.

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This - seeing it as an increase of horizontal space - only works if you
buy a display larger enough so that the height is identical to that of
the non-widescreen display. Otherwise, we're dealing with loss of
vertical space.

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Since the normal 4:3 ratio is 1280x1024 and Full HD is 1920x1080,
there is an increase in vertical space.

I mean, of course, physical size... if the displays have a similar
width, there is a loss in vertical space. Even if, having the same
width, the resolution is necessarily higher and allows more detail, it
still doesn't allow using height to display as much as in the 4:3
display, unless your eyesight allows for it.

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Nuno Silva