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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by minkzilla on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:00PM (#19240878)
how big is your monitor ? When I am on my laptop I run everything full screen. When I am on my desktop I have two 20" monitors and I regularly have multiple windows open on each. I have found that splitting vertically on one monitor with the code I am actively working on and firefox for looking up things works really well for me.
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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by int_19h on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:47PM (#19241144)
I have a 27" monitor, and 90% of the time, it shows a single maximized app, with the browser second in the Alt+Tab stack (so you can switch back and forth just pressing it once).
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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by rsynnott on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:23PM (#19241325)
Does that not make for either a lot of wasted space, or ridiculously wide text?
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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by int_19h on Monday February 25, 2019 @05:15PM (#19249993)
For the browser, it does (wasted horizontal space), but you can also rephrase it as "less distraction".

Most productivity apps, however, have their own way to subdivide space within the app efficiently. E.g. in the IDE, there are various panes and tool windows. Put a file browser on one side, a documentation browser on the other, and a terminal pane on the bottom, and it actually starts feeling kinda crowded.

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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by VRay on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:14AM (#19243679)
This guy is either trolling or he's the UX designer behind Windows 8

Either way he should be ashamed of himself!

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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by i_am_proteus on Sunday February 24, 2019 @10:32PM (#19242664)
Doing exactly this with a tiling windows manager was a game-changer for me, and I can't imagine going back to an "Alt-Tab" environment.
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