[Wowfunhappy]

As a teenager, I always put the Windows task bar on the left, under the logic that vertical space was more important than horizontal space for reading text. (Yes, this is the sort of thing I thought about as a teenager.)

As an adult, I've switched back to the bottom. Teenage-me's reasoning wasn't wrong per se, but in practice I feel 16:9 screens already provide sufficient vertical space, whereas I like having more horizontal space to keep multiple windows open at a time. When I was a teenager, I usually just kept everything in full screen anyway.

[conductr]

I think my experience has been similar. There's a couple reasons I can think that explain it;

- Resolutions improving/increasing has made multiple windows per screen feasible, in past you pretty much had to do full screen and toggle windows to multitask

- Mouse/scroll support followed. I can scroll on an inactive window these days. In past, you had to toggle and put focus on the window to be able to scroll, meaning you had to toggle windows to multitask

- Multitasking has become so multi. I am engaged in different apps/windows and need to watch them. I might have open a video on an eighth of my screen too just to watch something as I work. The only app I can think that came close to this in the past was AIM.

[mixmastamyk]

Some screens have enough vertical space—16:9 ain't included unless ginormous.

[alanbernstein]

This confuses me. The aspect ratio is independent of the absolute resolution.

[mixmastamyk]

This ratio is by definition short vertically. Yes it could be 100” or 2.5m across in 8k resolution, but not what folks typically mean.