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The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait

Posted by timothy on from the makes-it-hard-to-type dept.

Molly McHugh writes The vast majority of computer-related tasks see no benefit from a screen that is longer than it is tall. Sure, video playback and gaming are some key exceptions, but if you watch Netflix on your TV instead of your computer monitor and you're not into PC gaming, that long, wide display is doing nothing but hampering your experience. Let's flip it. No, seriously. Let's flip it sideways.

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  1. Have Both by PvtVoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have two monitors: one landscape, one next to it flipped into portrait mode. It's not fucking rocket science.

  2. Don't by zmooc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So because web designers fail to properly design the web and thus leave me with ridiculously narrow columns, I should rotate my monitor? That's rubbish. Scientific research has shown again and again that we can read longer lines much more efficiently than we can read short lines, even though our subjective experience is often to the contrary. Just fix those websites and keep your monitor in landscape. Thank you.

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    0x or or snor perron?!
  3. VVS by fox171171 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure, video playback and gaming are some key exceptions

    Well, with all the tards with VVS, I suppose even video is not always an exception either.

    Vertical Video Syndrome - A PSA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You're not shooting that right dummy!