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by stronglikedan 281 days ago
For a 34 incher, 1440px is perfect, and so is a 34 incher. A higher resolution renders text too small to read, and a larger monitor has one moving their head around instead of just their eyes.

Of course, they are not ideal for the graphical work that the author implies, but they can't be beat for productivity work imho.
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antonvs 281 days ago
> A higher resolution renders text too small to read

This is a misunderstanding of what higher resolution is for. Higher resolution allows text at exactly the same size to be much sharper and crisper. I have a 34” curved 1440p, and it’s like using a monitor from the pre-HD era in terms of sharpness. Other people in this thread have observed the same thing. The idea that it’s “perfect” is unfathomable to me.

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kasabali 281 days ago
it's not a misunderstanding, it's reality. yes in theory you can render text in dimensions you want, but in practice we have like 20 different UI systems running at the same time and each have their own quirks and limitations and the end result is unless you're using 96dpi or it's exact multiples. either som ui elements will be looking ridiculously out of proportion compared to something else, another element or image will look like a blurry fudge, and the end result always looks horrible.
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antonvs 281 days ago
Are you thinking of Windows perhaps? Mac and Linux can both handle this well. Even on X11 (which is old and limited in many ways), on 4K monitors global scaling of 200% works really well. But Windows has legacy apps that are bitmap-scaled, which apparently leads to blurriness (I’ve never seen this myself, only read about it. I’m allergic to Windows.)
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kasabali 280 days ago
> global scaling of 200% works really well

I've already said that.

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dotnet00 280 days ago
I haven't seen this on Windows in quite a while.
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skirmish 281 days ago
People differ. For me, 4k is perfect for an 31.5 incher I have, and I make fonts as small as possible (6.5px fonts in my editor I use all day right now). I appreciate huge expanses of quite readable (for me) text I get.
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messe 281 days ago
> A higher resolution renders text too small to read

Have you missed the last decade of High DPI displays and scaling?

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