ultrawide monitors?

Posted by Lothar Scholz
May 16, 2018 at 07:52 PM

I would recommend a 40” Iiyama or a 43” Acer 4K Monitor for your work.
I use the Iiyama with two vertical mounted 2560x1440 to the right of it.
I had a quad monitor solution before with another one to the left of the main monitor
in portrait mode for reading documentation but the update to Ubuntu 18.04 forced
me to change my graphics card.

The upper right takes 2 webbrowser windows. The one below 3 console windows.
and the main screen my IDE development program.

This is an almost optimal setup for software development.

And i will keep it until there are 8K monitors with 43” and then maybe bring back the
portrait one for documentation/database browsing. Or mirror the left side with 2 monitors
to the right and use a total of 5. I now this sounds like total nerdism.

I would recommend against a widescreen monitor because of the small high of the 3
windows you get. A 4k can do the same and has more vertical space.
I find this very important for optimal workflow with text and documentation.
Widescreen is for watching movies and gaming but not workstations.