<div id="geary-body" dir="auto">49" ultrawide curved monitor, equivalent to two 27" joined at their side. It's fantastic, I should have bought it years earlier. I would buy another one tomorrow if it was gone. It does split screen with 2 inputs if you wanted to do that. There's really no reason to buy two 27". Great for coding while doing the normal office work all at the same time. Good exercise for the neck as head turning is required!<div><br></div><div>Not having the join in the middle makes the monitor considerably more useful than two monitors, I spent years working with 2. You have so much more flexibility on laying out your windows, and can have your main focus right in the middle if you want. With a monitor like this windows hardly ever get maximised - but it is unbeatable for wide spreadsheets!</div><div><br></div><div>Mine is driven from a laptop and I have the inbuilt display as my second screen, I use for stuff that I can glance at but doesn't need my attention, then usually I flick the windows across to the biggie to read them.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been around long enough to start with 12" green screen monitors and black and white TVs that were deeper than they were wide. I've never bought a TV or monitor that I thought later was too big. I will keep buying bigger ones until that day happens!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Martin</div><div><br></div></div><div id="geary-quote" dir="auto"><br>On Tue, May 31 2022 at 21:32:56 +1000, Russell Coker via linux-aus <linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: break-spaces;">Has anyone had experience with a monitor larger than 40" on their desktop?
Currently Dell has a 27" USB-C monitor for $422 and a 32" monitor for $594
while Kogan has a 43" for $799 and I'm thinking of what to buy in July.
My wife's monitor broke and my plan is to buy myself a new monitor and give
her my Samsung 28" 4K monitor (which is higher spec than her previous
monitor).
USB-C monitors are ones that can supply USB-C power to a laptop while also
having keyboard and mouse connected to the monitor as a USB hub. It's
basically all the functionality of what used to be a laptop docking-station in
a monitor with a single cable. It would be quite handy to have that
functionality as a laptop with USB-C is on my shopping list too.
<a href="https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship">https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship</a>
According to the above article you want a TV to take up 30 degrees of vision,
but for a monitor it's probably a lot more as you focus on the window that
needs your attention. Based on resolution and size according to that article
a 43" 4K "TV" would be best at a distance of 80-160cm with the minimum being
based on not seeing individual pixels. For a monitor you don't need to not
see pixels IMHO, just need to have enough of them to clearly represent
letters. So maybe 43" would be a good size. It seems like a lot, but when I
had a 17" monitor on my desk any larger than that seemed excessive...
Another possibility is getting multiple monitors. For a long time I have been
unconvinced of the benefits of multiple monitors, but now I'm working at a
company where there's a USB-C dock at every desk with 2 monitors and I've got
used to working with 2 monitors in addition to a laptop display. If I bought
2 of those 27" USB-C monitors I could have them both on my desktop system most
of the time and connect one to a laptop on occasion when I needed to. Linux
has really good support for dynamic plugging of monitors nowadays and 2*27"
gives me twice the pixels and 3/4 the area of a 32" monitor for about the same
price.
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