No, the laptop is best used the way that works best for my usecase, not the way you want me to use it. But none of that is really true of laptops, which are best used with a focus on one app at a time. Multiple monitor setups are worth the investment for similar reasons. They also look quite glorious when gaming or watching movies shot in the cinematic 21:9 format. The ultrawide 21:9 desktop monitors are appealing in part because of their ability to comfortably host multiple browser and app windows side by side. So no, wide screens don’t bother me that much. Personally, as for doing “real work”, most of my time is spent either in 100×30 shell windows, or vertical emacs windows that take up one half of a monitor– usually scattered across 6 virtual desktops on two monitors giving me six 3840×1080 desktops.
The most egregious of these I encountered recently was an HTML5 website of the scrolling image variety with a video embedded in one frame– that auto played, and had no controls to stop, pause, or mute it.
… or the content? My desktop and my laptop both have 1920×1080 screens, and while I wouldn’t mind a bit more vertical usage, my pet peeves include the websites that insist on only using the middle third of my screen.Įvery page has these huge white wings on either side (sorry, Thom, but OSNews is a major offender here– good thing the content is of fairly high quality).Įither that, or the “web page” is a series of fullscreen images you have to scroll through, with minimal content, because someone thought that instead of adapting the newspaper column to the web, it would be a good idea to use power-point presentations.