I switched from a 38UC99 to a 43" 4K (16:9) display. For me, the extra vertical space (35% more) makes it much more useful for programming-type work. For example, showing many lines of code or logs at once.

Also got an ultra-wide curved. Work bought it. HP brand, 43”. Not my first choice but it’s where I work so that’s what we get.

I can say unequivocal that when I eventually have to take it back to the office, a) my non software developer team members will drool, b) I will buy myself something because gaming (and everything else) is fantastic on it.

Oh yes. That's the screen I'm rocking. It's pure bliss.

For gamers I'm sure there's better but the 38UC99 is quite something. Now it's already three years old (or even older?) so there's probably better at the same price point now?

That price! Omg

$1K - Hard pass. I'll take two crappy IPS 24 inch monitors before I drop that kinda cash on a monitor.

Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.

The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.

Anything you're gonna interact with more than half your waking hours is worth spending lots of money on, to me. Over 4 years of daily use a monitor like that is something like 20 cents an hour. Seems worth it to me.

There are much cheaper curved widescreen monitors as well, I bought a 100hz AOC monitor for 360 dollars or so. That was more than worth it.

It looks to be 60Hz. I think 144Hz is nice even if you only write code. Everything is more smooth, like scrolling code or documents.