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I'm getting one of those tomorrow to replace a triple 24" setup. Will I love it or hate it? Don't play any games so I don't care about the low refresh rate. And yes, I know it's way more expensive than two 27" monitors with the same combined resolution, but I'm tired of having bezels, cords, pressing multiple buttons, keeping them aligned, etc.

Will be placing it on a 80" Uplift standing desk which I got recently and have no major complaints.

I don't use Windows, so I won't have that problem. (Actually Dell provides Windows snapping software that is probably pretty good for Windows.)

On Ubuntu, I'm pretty sure the native solution is non-existent as you describe. However, if it really bothers me I can attach a second video cable to my computer so it thinks I have two monitors. Then I'd have 4 snap zones.

But yeah, that has been my complaint with monitors >24".

which's the proportion?

I found gtile to manage tiling windows in arbitrary areas via keyboard shortcuts. Works well, but the UI is straight from hell. Other than the inability to maximize a video without borders to a third of the monitor, the annoyances of managing windows across a single large display are taken care of. Chrome's "picture-in-picture" feature to pop-out videos is usually good enough though, so it's not that bad.

I'm normally using the middle 50% of the monitor as a 27" display using the left and right quarters for miscellaneous information to glance at, but ultimately I think I'd prefer a monitor with a much more pronounced curve as with three displays I'd typically angle the outer ones toward me. The corners of the monitor are noticeably farther away than the center which will take getting used to. However, I do like that it doesn't take up a lot of depth on my desk.

In terms of picture quality, etc, it's what you'd expect from a Dell business monitor. Good colors, good resolution, slow refresh rate (60hz). This is not a gaming or movie monitor.

Aesthetically it's awesome. Two cables (power, video) instead of and seven (displayx3, powerx3, usb) reduces clutter. The lack of bezels between video areas lets me have much more flexible sized windows. And if I were using a laptop, then I could even ditch my laptop's power cable since the usb-c can provide 90W to the laptop.

After I'm used to it, I'm sure going back to multiple monitors will feel archaic. For my use case, I think it's the right form and size, but I don't think most people would miss much sticking with 38" variety, and if you want to primarily play games I'd definitely pick something else.

Cost me $1100 with taxes, and I wouldn't give up groceries to buy it, but as someone with the money to spend and sitting behind a computer all day long, it's well worth it.

My next monitor will be a 300 kHz universe sized 3D printer.

I have never found that I make good use of multiple monitors. I always treat one of my monitors as my primary, and the others are just secondary information that I can glance at without task switching. I used to run a Linux VM on my spare monitor and do my Web browsing and almost everything in Linux, with the Windows host on the primary monitor (well, primary was dynamic, heh) for company business which was Microsoft-based. The Web is so damn demanding though now it seems there's never enough RAM. Mind you, this machine is 5 years old now so it's showing its age. And I'm using my work laptop because my desktop died. I did bring a monitor from the office to connect my machine to, but it arbitrarily wasn't working and I don't get paid to suck at diagnosing hardware. I did try updating the drivers, which didn't fix it at the time. Then I put the monitor on the ground after enough time had passed that it was in the way. Since then a few driver updates have come out, but I've been too lazy to pick the monitor up off of the ground to check if it's working now. I don't get enough value out of duals unless I can be running a virtual machine on the other monitor. I'll never turn down multiple monitors though. They're very nice to have [when they're working]. Even if I don't get great use out of them, they do make my life significantly easier because I'm usually switching between some primary thing and others and having your main application reliably always visible and consistently positioned can save time.

That's actually a brilliant idea. You could set up a perfect virtual office instead. I wonder if the technology is ready for that.

Maybe the technology can track a real world object and simulate it in VR?

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Which would you rather be? Santa? Or a Polar Bear?

In reality, they both make you fat and bald!

That's why I prefer beer. I may get fat^[1], I may get bald^[2], but at least I'll forget all of the hell that got me there^[3].