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KimDotSe
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My employer bought some new 40" 4k displays to the office. The want us to evaluate if they are any good, and if so replace all monitors... No real developers has one, only HR people sitting there with one huge window with office or word open!! It makes me cry! And they will most likely say they are too big!

When everyone left the office I tried one... OMG, i need this in my life! 😍

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  • 24
    8y
    Having dual monitors for programming is great. Version control on one monitor and code on the other.
  • 15
    8y
    @2E0PGS man, if only life was that simple, on one I have code, for explorer, and company chat, on the other I have music, documentation, command line, and version control. Even that's not as much screen real estate as I would like, in an ideal world I'd probably have three screens! xD
  • 33
    8y
    Great example on why a tiling window manager is the best choice for a large screen.
  • 5
    8y
    @2E0PGS Plus third one for Stackoverflow
  • 2
    8y
    ++ for tag too
  • 11
    8y
    I have a 4k 28" monitor at home and, let me tell you, it's the best investment I've ever made.

    People think it's just because I want to watch 4k video all day (which is not entirely true, but goddammit that looks good), but they don't understand what having 6 terminals open at the same time feels like. It's like god mode for programming. Seriously. Try it if you have the chance
  • 6
    8y
    I'm planning on buying a 34" curved ultawide from lg. 34UC98 i think. Used one for an hour or so at a friend, and I fell in love immediately.
  • 7
    8y
    Should send your own input and declare that the developers would love them. Why HR needs anything that large just for word documents is ridiculous.
  • 1
    8y
    What is a model or a brand of this screen?
  • 4
    8y
    @oscylo Philips BDM4037UW/00 I think
  • 1
    8y
    @Wallpaper yeah I will. Because it's great for devs, not so much for mail and word 😁
  • 12
    8y
    @KimDotSe long ass model name, appended by "i think" lmao
  • 0
    8y
    @rmahey hehe yeah. Well I searched for Philips and I found this one that looks like the correct one. Not sure though
  • 2
    8y
    I cmd + tab like a maniac xD
  • 0
    8y
    @Seudein One can dream
  • 1
    8y
    @Seudein OSx and Windows 10 have something at least kind of equivalent to Ubuntu workspaces. No need to dream.
  • 0
    8y
    @Zaphod65 I was mainly referring to text in brackets. I should have been more specific.
  • 2
    8y
    With one of these you can navigate through the whole project at once 😂
  • 4
    8y
    Are you using i3? <3
  • 3
    8y
    @hplar No, I'm actually not even using a tiling Wm. This is just standard ubuntu with numix theme. I've been thinking about trying out a tiling Wm though. Might give i3 a go
  • 2
    8y
    @KimDotSe, definitely give it a try. Has a learning curve (especially coming from a stacking wm world) but definitely worth it. I use i3-wm. Other alternatives: bspwm, awesomewm, xmonad (configuration done in Haskell).
  • 0
    8y
    @darkness I'll definitely will. Thanks for the tips! Can I install these besides mine. Like the way different shells can be installed besides each other?
  • 2
    8y
    @KimDotSe yep, Ubuntu will also give you the option of which to log in with when you go to log in. You will probably want to do some reading around about the more feature-filled window managers though, they can have a rather steep learning curve. Don't get me wrong, I love XMonad personally, but it's not intuitive at first.
  • 0
    8y
    @Zaphod65 awesome! I'll probably try i3.. 😁
  • 1
    8y
    I3 is great tho dont expect too much eye candy -> its functional AF tho.

    You'll need to do some research about hotkeys and editing ~/.i3/config tho
  • 1
    8y
    Tho :')
  • 2
    8y
    @hplar I do love me some eye candy tho! Is there any wm's that look good too? Tho?! 😉
  • 2
    8y
    @KimDotSe most of the tiling window manager are minimal as fuck at the same time super-customizable. You should check out r/unixporn. Here's my desktop:
  • 3
    8y
    At home I have 3 screens, utilising all of them.

    I feel lost at school, with my laptop, no second screen to add :(

    There are portable monitors... For 200 bucks, I thought about it, but I'm unsure,
  • 3
    8y
    @darkness Unixporn really gave me hope on the eye candy part!
  • 3
    8y
    I've tried hard to use i3 due to the better/existing documentation and to just switch it up, but always end back up to awesomewm, counterproductively wasting many hours revising the configs to get that "new desktop feel" lol
  • 1
    8y
    dont waste too much time on gui ;)
  • 1
    8y
    I usually run 4 monitors as standard. Workflow is awesome!!
    👌🏼
  • 1
    8y
    seems like a dream
  • 1
    8y
    I disagree. 27" 144hz 1440p is king.
  • 1
    8y
    @2E0PGS or stackoverflow on the second. 😉
  • 0
    8y
    @2E0PGS having 3 + i3/tmux is betterer :3
  • 1
    8y
    Omg that's magnificent
  • 1
    8y
    I will buy one. Definitely. I read some reviews, checked the price and this monitor is more than perfect. I thought about buying 34" 21:9 LG monitor but now I want this one. Thanks for the photo!
  • 0
    8y
    @beriba Glad I could help, just know that it is rather blank! Tell me how you like it later!
  • 0
    8y
    @KimDotSe What do you exactly mean by saying "it's rather blank"?
  • 0
    8y
    @beriba Yeah I was not sure if that was the correct way of expressing it, lol. It's not a mat screen. So if the sun is shining on it you won't see shit. But it's great in a darker room.
  • 0
    8y
    So you meant that it's glossy :) That's not a problem for me because the sun won't shine directly at it. But thanks for mentioning that, I didn't know about it even after reading reviews.
  • 0
    8y
    @beriba Glossy ofc! OK, then it's a great screen! :)
  • 0
    8y
    @zfor my next door neighbor has on... Really really sweet monitors
  • 2
    8y
    I just jizzed a little
  • 0
    8y
    @donoskaro Yes it is! 😁
  • 1
    8y
    I need a wall projector
  • 0
    8y
    40 inch 4k, glorious.

    1440p is neat at 25-27 inch, but I can't understand how devs can work on 4k at that format (without UI scaling).
  • 0
    8y
    @zunder Oh god I did not know about this. Thank you :o
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