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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers (2021) by kadoban on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:04PM (#38807297)
It's unclear to me why we'd be optimizing solely for pixels or pixels/$.

I personally like my wide monitor, and I don't even particularly care to go for more pixels when available, ie my preferred resolution is ~1440p. They're nice and cheap, they look good to me, and they're easy to drive for the gpu.

I go more for deep blacks and good colors, pixels just look good until your eyes adjust and then it's all the same.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers (2021) by calfuris on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:46PM (#38809356)
For me, it's about screen real estate, not looks. More pixels is more usable space, until you have to start scaling things up for comfort. I find a 27 inch 4k monitor to be comfortable without scaling, but I think it's just about the limit for me, and I expect that the PPI limit varies from person to person.
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