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DTJ:

--- Quote from: alanambrose on November 28, 2020, 01:53:16 pm ---A related question:

- which graphics card are you choosing for those super-wide screens?

+ windows manager question

TIA, Alan

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I have no idea. I'm using an all in one PC at the moment and in a month or so will get a new desktop + monitor.

I (perhaps naively) was planning on using whatever graphics card was in the box.

As for window managers - I've never used one.


I don't game or do anything fancy other than normal office work, browsing plug PCB & mechanical cad work.
Have you got any tips or advice for me on these things?

coppice:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 29, 2020, 01:10:14 pm ---As for the flat versus straight, I went for a flat 32-inch ultra-wide 4K because a friend who did a lot of PCB layouts professionally bought top-of-the-line curved screens but hated them, so he went back to flat screens as flat was more intuitive. I also do a lot of PCB design work too and I did not want to take the risk. My ultra-wide also splits into two smaller screens for document comparing etc. I also use a classic 16:9 24-inch screen next to the ultra-wide. All electronics engineers needs two screens - minimum, IMO.

Too big a screen can create neck strain. For example, some gamers with a big screen can get sore necks after a while because they are looking all over the place. I know one gamer who returned his new 27 inch monitor because it was too big considering the distance he was sitting at it from. In the old days of TV sets, a rule-of-thumb was the diagonal measurement should be 1/5 the distance the viewer would seated from. That is, too large or too smaller a screen can both be bad. Also looking down a little can reduce strain.

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Screen height is the real killer for neck muscles. Swinging your head from side to side continuously isn't too straining. Make the screen high enough that you need to tilt your head up and down a lot, and your neck aches very quickly.

coppercone2:
i used to read on my 24 inch dell monitor that tilted sideways (~15 years ago) just fine, I preferred the horizontal orientation for books. I actually used that feature, now it looks like they got rid of it.

tom66:
Some thoughts:-

Glare tends to be a little worse with them because they act a bit like a parabola (depends upon room lighting of course)

It's very hard to find cheaper 4K ones - I got two 28", 4K monitors for under £400 but it would cost double as much to get equivalent curved ones.

I'd imagine that it's damn near impossible to repair them without destroying the screen.  It is in principle possible to replace the LED backlight in my 4K monitors if it fails, although difficult,  but in a curved monitor, the panel is under some kind of tension or the glass would be extremely fragile.  I'd be interested to see if anyone has worked on these to see what their thoughts are.

tggzzz:
Flat screens have a major advantage over curved screens in normal homes and offices.

Unless the rest of the room is blacked out, you will get reflections of the room on the screen. With a flat screen you can tilt/move the screen so the reflection moves off the screen. With a curved screen, tilting/moving the screen merely moves the reflection to a different part of the screen.

Don't trust me. Go to a TV showroom, turn off a curved screen, sit in a relevant position, and look for one main reflection. Tilt/move the screen so that that reflection is no longer visible are no (if you can!).

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