Upgraded to a 40" 4k Monitor at home and now my dual 24" 1080p monitors at work feel like toys.

Nice! Not too large? It's ridiculous that 1080p monitors still exists, I had a monitor in like '04 with 1600x1200

Is that a monitor or a TV?

@megabait I don't find it too large but any bigger and you would have to start moving your head around which is when it becomes too big for me.

@jlave215 It is actually a TV, but I'm using it solely as a monitor. Did my research on the model beforehand, so no typical issues like slow response time that TV's tend to have.

@penguin Which model?

HDMI 2.0?

@jlave215 40PUK6400 I think they only sell this specific model in a few European countries.

@megabait yes, HDMI 2.0 - 4k @ 60Hz with 4:4:4 color subsampling capable

Nice setup! K70 + MX master. Have the same ones ;)

@xios Nice. K70 with which switches? I chose MX Brown..

@penguin blue all the way. Fuck them all. Suffer from my clikies =D

So, what is better for coding or work? one big screen or two smaller ones?

@gedankennebel one biggish. The size that gives the possibility to concentrate on one thing at a time.

@gedankennebel yeah the bigger monitor has twice the resolution of dual 1080p monitors. So the bigger one is better since you see more code or whatever you want at once.

And i am still using 800x600 monitor.

@tankmohit11 Well thats all one needs for coding. Do you use workspaces? I use them all the time on my laptop which is a older low res thinkpad and it works great.

@penguin i am using arch + i3. And it works great. I can't live without workspaces.

@dev-ant it is just a good old monitor from windows xp days.

144hz?

@dev-ant I do a lot of python programming and if you follow the pep8 guidelines, lines shouldn't exceed 80char in length which fits in 800x600. So unless the monitor has a larger physical area for multiple windows it wouldn't really make a difference to me.

I wish i had one

More important than monitor is keyboard for programmer

Nice!!

@gedankennebel one big screen OR two smaller ones?

You mean one big screen AND two smaller ones.

The first rule of displays: You always need one more.

The second rule of displays: Once you upgrade in resolution or display count, you will never be able to go back.

I need at least 3x1440p displays now.

The screen i liked the most fort coding was my 21:9 3440x1440 screen, it's a 34" screen, with the lg software you can cut it in 4 windows which i found awesome.

Got a fat 55" tv for gaming at home though, couldn't stand light bleed anymore so i took an oled panel, would like it to be only 40" but no model on the market

@penguin Oh, so it's it a monitor. And here I was thinking I was missing out on some cool new technology.

@Codebeard 40" monitors do exist. http://philips.com.au/c-p/...

@penguin Oh, ok. I mainly use other brands. I saw a 43" Dell just now on Amazon. I really have to search around more for monitors.

I wanted to get a 4k one, but I don't see that well. I don't know if I would be able to program on a resolution like that.

@Codebeard I believe a 43" 16:9 4k monitor has about the same pixel density as a 24" 16:9 1080p monitor.
With this tv that i'm using, everything is still readable. I'm not using scaling.

@penguin Aha...I'll look into to that.

@Codebeard Depending on your OS & apps, you could use UI scaling -- awesome for images & video editing, but for code that kind of defeats the purpose though.

For me personally, 120 pixels per inch unscaled is a perfect balance between spaciousness and readability, so around 25" for 1440p and 36" for 4K.

For laptops it's great to go with 15-17" with a 4K screen, because you can easily apply a 2x UI scaling factor there.

It's a very personal thing though, and depends greatly on your eyesight and how comfortable you are with tiny text & buttons.

Use https://www.sven.de/dpi/ to calculate size/resolution ratios, so you can decide where your sweet spot is.

@megabait @penguin displayport masterrace

I still use 1440x900 at home, VGA ftw :D but I will upgrade to at least two 1080p when I get money

Mine is 15.6", 1376×768...

Beautiful setup! I would really like to have a keyboard like that :(