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Discussion on: How to Pick a Good Monitor for Software Development

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Nick Janetakis • Edited

Thanks.

I'm not a fan of either.

For curved monitors to get that effect, the physical pixels on the monitor are distorted.

If you're into design, it may become difficult to see exactly how things look on a flat panel. For general use it might be ok, but personally I wouldn't go for one. There's already so many variables to account for with web design.

Ultra-wide could be interesting, but if you want that much screen space I would prefer 2 separate monitors, mainly because you have more control over how things are displayed.

When dealing with a ton of horizontal space, it's often useful to angle in both monitors towards you slightly, but with a single ultra-wide monitor you couldn't do that.

Also it's way easier to manage multiple windows with 2 monitors because you can independently maximize and split windows on each monitor, but with 1 huge ass monitor, you're going to spend a lot of time micro managing individual windows.