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Comment by ternus

18 hours ago

My primary monitor is the Samsung 57" 8Kx2K 240Hz ultrawide. That's the same amount of bandwidth, running over DisplayPort 2. It mostly works!

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sfjailbird  13 hours ago

I have three 4K 27" which yield a bit more screen real estate. Otherwise I'd love to go to a single ultrawide.

  • dietr1ch  8 hours ago

    I prefer 3 monitors because it eases window management while being cheaper. For gaming I only need one 240Hz+ monitor and for Lan parties I only take that one.

    Although for sim racing I've been thinking about getting a single ultra wide and high refresh rate monitor, but I'd probably go for a dedicated setup with a seat, monitor and speakers. It gets pricey, but cheaper than crashing IRL.

    • sfjailbird  5 hours ago

      Yeah, window management is certainly better with separate monitors, hopefully this will get better with time.

      On the flip side I would love to get rid of physically managing three individual pieces of hardware that wasn't made to work together as one setup.

wellthisisgreat  15 hours ago

Is it actually good for productivity? The curve isn’t too aggressive? Could you, e.g. stack 3 independent windows and use all 3? Or you kind of give up on the leftmost / rightmost edges ?

  • dietr1ch  7 hours ago

    I think window managers these days do a better job on 3 monitors than on a single one that could have the same area.

    With an ultra wide you lose the screen concept for managing area and it gets awful because you lose grouping windows on different screens, picking per-monitor workspaces, moving windows across screens.

    Either monitors need to present themselves as multiple screens, or window managers need to come up with virtual screens to regain the much needed screen abstraction.