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I've got a ultra wide and 2 smaller monitors either side works really well
Dual screens or Ultrawide?
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Dual. I couldn't get on with the 34 1440 curved lad I got, it just wasn't doing whatever dual monitors does for me does. Perhaps there's a place for the ultra|portrait dual wield meta of glory, but I don't think most people really *need* an ultra, they feel form over function to me.
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I went from 1080p ultrawide to a 4k with the ultrawide in portrait and it was a horrible decision. I've now got a 34" 1440 ultrawide with the 4k in portrait and it's so much better in... every single way. I'll never go back to a main 16:9 again tbh.
Even using the UW by itself when I was trying to sell the 4k I much preferred the single UW over the 4k & second screen. I've only got the 4k in portrait because I realised after having it for sale for 4 weeks that it does, in fact, twist on its stand
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I have an Ultrawide and miss a second screen. Split screen on an UW, I don't know; never feels the same as a separate screen for media. I like to have Spotify, YouTube, PDFs, and guides separate.
Gaming wise, UW all the way. Had a triple setup but the bezels annoyed!
Do like a Portrait monitor setup like Matte posted above.
Gaming wise, UW all the way. Had a triple setup but the bezels annoyed!
Do like a Portrait monitor setup like Matte posted above.
I was introduced to PowerTools a few years ago - the FancyZones feature in that is brilliant, thought I admittedly haven't used it much since Win11 either
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Got the LG 40” 5k2k ultrawide recently and I use at 100% scaling purely for work. It lets me fit literally everything I need open at once within a usable field of view. To me it’s ideal because there’s no head-turning/neck cranking; a 32:9 would waste space at the sides. A 32” 16:9 4K I’d have to have a second screen and a 40“ 4K you waste vertical space. Have to have the work laptop open for Teams sharing but that’s a minor inconvenience. At work I have the laptop on a stand for Teams then 2 x 24” 1080p displays. Much prefer my home set-up!
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Yeah one single monitor whatever the size just doesn't offer the utility of dual screens. You just don't end up playing a windowed game with something else taking up the rest of the space
Whilst I'm not a big (or at least, modern) gamer, I had a fun weekend enjoying Halo, Half Life 2 and Fallout 4 in gorgeous 3440x1440 
Have got about 30 games in my Steam library which I'll be testing out on Ultrawide (including Bioshock remastered), but for the primary purpose of the purchase, working, I'm finding that the Ultrawide is just as good as dual screens
Have got about 30 games in my Steam library which I'll be testing out on Ultrawide (including Bioshock remastered), but for the primary purpose of the purchase, working, I'm finding that the Ultrawide is just as good as dual screens
Dual monitors, for the following reasons:
- with a dual monitor system you can turn one monitor off if it's not needed and avoid the distraction of such a large display beaming light at you.
- on macOS, the 'File Edit View...' is way up top and to the far left on an Ultrawide, not an ideal UI.
- if you maximise a document on an Ultrawide it is often just way too big to be useful.
I have a 38" Ultrawide and personally find the display too tall and wide for work. I hardly ever game, but I did find that some games were not compatible with an Ultrawide, maybe that has changed recently. I don't like curved monitors as you cannot angle them to get rid of an annoying reflection like a flat monitor.
I also have 2 x Dell U2412M monitors from before the Ultrawide and prefer them for work.
I would like to try a 27" 5k monitor and then maybe get a second if I thought it would benefit productivity.
- with a dual monitor system you can turn one monitor off if it's not needed and avoid the distraction of such a large display beaming light at you.
- on macOS, the 'File Edit View...' is way up top and to the far left on an Ultrawide, not an ideal UI.
- if you maximise a document on an Ultrawide it is often just way too big to be useful.
I have a 38" Ultrawide and personally find the display too tall and wide for work. I hardly ever game, but I did find that some games were not compatible with an Ultrawide, maybe that has changed recently. I don't like curved monitors as you cannot angle them to get rid of an annoying reflection like a flat monitor.
I also have 2 x Dell U2412M monitors from before the Ultrawide and prefer them for work.
I would like to try a 27" 5k monitor and then maybe get a second if I thought it would benefit productivity.
I have tried a million options and have ended up with 34" ultrawide. It works well for work, and it works well for gaming tbh. I did have a 24" in portrait mode at the side (for slack etc) but tbh, I just find using the one big screen is easier to manage and cleaner. I got a LGC2 42" at one point, and actually prefer the 34" ultrawide (albeit not as amazing a screen).
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Neither of these are an issue on Windows.
Windows 10, use FancyZones. Windows 11 has builtin window manager that handles screen splitting.