> my beef is with Atwood's opinion (and similar opinions) that you must use a three monitor setup
It's weird to me to specify the number of monitors given how they come in a vast range of shapes and sizes.
For example, my dream setup used to be a single 55" curved 8K monitor. That's the rough equivalent of a 2x2 grid of 27" 4K monitors (I currently have two 27" 4K side by side in landscape @ 1:1 scaling).
The only problem with my so-called dream set up though is I don't think my computer glasses, which are sharp only for surfaces between a range of 21" to 27" would allow me to see everything sharp from corner to corner on that monitor, which sucks.
Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:07PM
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as a general rule I like to have a computer that is sort the average crap that you think a person might have around who does not care that much about computers so then if the stuff I make works on that I know it's going to work on the upscale stuff as well.
Also then when one of my disastrous kids destroys it I don't feel bad.
on edit: fixed typo
I just dislike being told unless I follow these fads I'm a subpar developer. I don't own a mechanical keyboard or a three monitor setup. I don't own a 4K monitor (I suppose I eventually will, when they become the norm). When Apple came up with retina displays, I didn't feel I had magically become unable to write code because my display at the time was 1440x900.