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

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.

 
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.

Which is why you should seek out 16:10 aspect computer monitors.  Those
give you 1920x1200, which matches height wise the old 4:3 standard of
1600x1200 while giving you 320 more horizontal pixels.  They, however,
are often not the "lowest cost offering".

If you cheep out and buy the lowest cost offering, you get a HDTV 16:9
display, with it's 1920x1080 and yes, you've not lost 120 vertical
pixels in order to gain 320 horizontal pixels.

Of course, the above is assuming buying monitors to plug into separate
computers.  If buying a laptop, and planning to use its built in panel,
well then your choices in screen resolutions are based on what the
maker offers for the model you are considering and nothing more.