I noticed that Discord and Slack are infinitely easier to use when only taking up half a monitor, and it got me wondering what other apps are that way.
Cole Walker
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What Desktop Apps do you use where the UI is better when it isn't taking up the full screen?
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Slack is indeed better not in full screen.
However, I do have one of my monitors rotated 90 degrees. Slack, StackOverflow, IDEs, text editors are much easier to work with on rotated screens 🙂
You actually convinced me to rotate one of my monitors, and I have to say that I love it! Code editing is much better, as is browsing a lot of the web!
I really should set up one of my monitors to be rotated, I can definitely see the appeal of it as a developer!
Terminal, Microsoft Teams
You're right, any command line tool is borderline unusable in full screen!
Insomnia Rest API
Blackboard is another one which curiously works better on half a screen.