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Ultrawide or multi-monitor setup? (self.battlestations)

submitted 8 months ago by casualhippo to c/[email protected]

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I have a two monitor set up going right now hooked up to a dual display KVM switch. Sadly, a recent power outage has caused some finicky behavior in either my KVM or my secondary monitor, since it comes in and out. Will get around to debugging my setup once I have some time this holiday season, but I was also debating on switching to a single ultrawide monitor setup. I'm a software engineer by trade, and I get the most use out of the second monitor while working. However, when I'm doing literally anything else, the second monitor just tends to be Spotify, discord, or some background video or podcast.

What's your preference? Anyone switch from one to the other? How do you use your setup?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I bought an ultrawide and don't think I could go back. Its good for gaming (when a game knows how to take advantage of it, some still suck at this though) but for productivity it is absolutely a game changer for me.

Highly recommend something like display fusion if you are on windows. You can setup "virtual monitors" so you can "full screen" a game and not take up the whole thing and it works great. Some games are rough at 32:9 aspect ratio so I setup a basic 16:9 ratio virtual monitor in the center, can still see discord on one side and whatever else I need on the other side. Also had a shortcut key to dim everything but active window so you didn't have brightness bleed while gaming. It's great. There are similar features baked into KDE, so I didn't even need further software when I changed to linux.