Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by tbrock on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:52PM (#29421537)

What is extremely annoying to me is that all these companies make ultra wide monitors without increasing the horizontal resolution. Why would anyone want an ultra-WIDE monitor with exactly the same resolution as a 4k monitor. The T E X T L O O K S S T R E T C H E D!

They need to increase the horizontal resolution when they increase the width of the monitor to add value over a regular shape monitor with the same resolution.

Are there any 32"+ ultrawide screens that have higher horizontal resolution?

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by SomeBoolshit on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:59PM (#29421652)

I've never encountered an ultra wide that didn't support the equivalent desktop resolution. Are you sure this wasn't a problem with the drivers or the capabilities of the device you plugged it into?

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by tbrock on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:35PM (#29425107)

No. Their max horizontal resolution (technical specification) is no better than a 4k monitor’s.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by MatthewWilkes on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:06PM (#29421718)

My Samsung Ultrawide has a 3840x1080 resolution. Once or twice it's been misdetected as normal horizontal resolution, when switching PIP off. I suspect you've been the victim of a driver/host issue.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by tbrock on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:35PM (#29425113)

Thats bad. That max horizontal resolution is no better than a 4k monitor’s.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by pitched on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:01PM (#29421671)

I use a Samsung Odyssey G9 and it has both the distance and resolution of two 28” 1440p monitors. Thing is a dream for coding with but kind of terrible for both movies and games because of that crazy aspect ratio!

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by CitrusFruits on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:01PM (#29421668)

I've never seen this happen. If you look at Newegg for example all these monitors seem to have the proper resolution to accommodate their aspect ratio.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=ultrawide

*edited for grammar

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by tbrock on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:36PM (#29425119)

Literally none of them have a horizontal resolution exceeding that of a non-wide 4k monitor.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by ziml77 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:53PM (#29422373)

I can only imagine this being the case if someone has their desktop resolution set wrong. The panels have square pixels, so increasing the horizontal size necessarily adds more pixels.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by trarman on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:25PM (#29421992)

My Dell ultrawide displays 5120x1440. It's glorious to behold.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by tbrock on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:37PM (#29425121)

What model?

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