On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:50:19 +0200 "Wyatt" <wyatt....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 17:20:37 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > rare few who have a monitor that swivels vertically or some > > Once you go vertical, you never go back! > > No, really, considering how much nicer it is for _every kind of > documentation_ (and most code), it's sad that this standard > feature of good Dell monitors for at least five years is rare. > > -Wyatt Yea. (And for vertical sh'mups!) That's also the reason 4:3 monitors would have to be pryed from my cold dead hands. 16:9 is fine for videos and games, but my computer isn't a glorified TV (as the manufacturers apparently insist on pretending). For non-TV uses of a computer (ie, the whole freaking point) 16:9 is just absolutely awful. 5:4 is tolerable, but even that's nearly impossible to find now. My stupid laptop has a 16:9 built-in because I literally couldn't find anything better. Normally I just have it connected to my 4:3 CRT. What I've ended up doing is mounting my taskbar on the left side of the screen instead of the bottom. The built-in 16:9 is downright unusable otherwise. And I've found it's even an improvement on the 4:3, too.