Comment by doubled112

1 day ago

Probably not the norm, but I use a large 4K monitor and no scaling.

I haven’t maximized a window in years. They look ridiculous like that. Especially web pages with their max width set so the content is 1/4 the screen and 3/4 whitespace.

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alex_c  1 day ago

I use a 40” 4K screen.

If I ever accidentally full screen a window, and it’s not in night mode, I am instantly blinded by a wall of mostly white empty background!

  • Wowfunhappy  1 day ago

    Do you have the brightness on your monitor set really high or something?

    I frequently use macOS on a projector, it doesn't quite fill my wall floor to ceiling but it comes close. I don't use full screen often, but I do it occasionally as a focusing strategy, and it's fine.

    • amarant  1 day ago

      Projectors are way easier on the eyes than monitors though.

      You're shining a bright light on a wall, which you are looking at.

      With a monitor you are shining a bright light at your face, while staring directly at the lightbulb!

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amarant  1 day ago

I too have a huge monitor. How anyone can use one without a tiling window manager is beyond me

  • doubled112  1 day ago

    A tiling window manager adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts I can’t get used to. Not worth the mental load of having things change places on their own either.

    It’s probably a me problem, but I’m going to open stuff and then leave it scattered around all day. It’s fine.

    I don’t use more than a couple of virtual desktops either. Just one for current tasks and one for background apps.

ryandrake  1 day ago

I have three 27" screens (iMac in the center and two thunderbolt displays on each side) and I use most of my "daily driver" applications fullscreen (single monitor). So, things like Xcode, VSCode, web browsers, mail, Quicken, Spreadsheets and Word Processing, and so on. This gives me usually at most 3 things to do at once. Occasionally, for smaller apps, like calculator, messages and so on, I won't fullscreen them. But for my main workflows, it's fullscreen all the way.

My actual biggest pet peeve with this setup is the vast number of web sites that deliberately choose to limit their content to a tiny column centered horizontally in my browser, with 10cm of wasted whitespace on each side.