Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved monitor for programming?

Re:Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved ... by childintime on Monday December 18, 2017 @09:09AM (#15951659)

I have Samsung 4k 40" curved TV as a monitor. It has 600px extra vertical, it's overwhelming initially :)

Screen area must be managed as Matt says. With 2 monitors the all important center area can't be used for display, so the neck works overtime.

Never going back to multiple monitors, they are basically a hack.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved ... by mayoff on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:13AM (#15952624)

With two monitors, you needn’t arrange the monitors symmetrically on your desk. I use two 5k (hi-dpi/Retina) monitors. One is in front of me, slightly right of centered. I mostly keep my main working file on the left half of this monitor, directly in front of me. My second monitor is to the left. The split between monitors falls where I’d naturally have window edges if it were a single monitor with a centered editor window.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved ... by matt_the_bass on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:34AM (#15952843)

I’ve tried similar but still found that awkward. Maybe because I don’t require so much real estate off to the side.

I don’t think there is a one size fits all solution. So hearing these different ideas is probably of value to the OP

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Re:Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved ... by matt_the_bass on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:54PM (#15956237)

Wow. Great idea. I’ll look into that

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Re:Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved ... by bawigga on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:37AM (#15961399)

Which Samsung model do you have?

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