There aren’t many games that support native Ultrawide but man when they do, whew. It’s an experience. Just keep in mind you need a beefier graphics card to keep up with the Ultrawide resolutions as well. Also if you purchase there’s a software Windows offers for free that will allow you to easily align windows left right and center as you please for other tasks besides gaming. I found most games with the previously mentioned software and 2440x1680 (or whatever res it is) work perfectly with no issues.
I always thought monitor clamp arms were stupid until I saw in real life how much space it saves. It is so worth it to have more desk space and to keep your desk clean (literally and figuratively).
I bought an ultrawide monitor, and it has over the years, become my least favorite part of my setup. The games that I play usually do not even support ultrawide, movies don’t support it, and Youtube videos do not support it.
Basically, I spent the extra amount of money on a monitor that shows black bars 90% of the time I am at my desk, and that has really soured my experience with ultrawides.
The next monitor I get will be a flat, 2 or 4k OLED monitor.
But when it works it’s excellent, reminds me of going from 4:3 to 16:9. Playing 16:9 feels jarring, like I’m playing with blinders on. I’m not sure what you’re playing but most of the games I play do support 21:9.
And YouTube actually supports 21:9, it’s just that most content creators don’t make videos in that format.
21:9 ultrawide for main desktop and gaming and 16:9 to the side for discord, browser, whatever else is plenty for me. Also that’s all that will fit on my desk arms lol.
Similar set up for me. But 21:9 is my desktop, so discord, web browser, anything that is lower quality. Then my 16:9 is my gaming and high quality content screen.
This is because my 21:9 monitor is a bit older now, and a 144hz VA panel, and I hate it for games. My new 16:9 is an OLED and 240hz and it is absolutely gorgeous. I also mostly play fighting games, so anything more than 16:9 is just black, well in the case of the VA panel grey and a bunch of light bleed.
Home office has a single ultra wide plus my laptop screen under it. Work on the big screen, YouTube and teams on the laptop.
At work I have an ultra wide with a 16:9 portrait display (turned 90 degrees) on the side. That leaves the big space for work, and the side one for teams, YouTube, and any documents I have to reference.
First time using a portrait display, and it is so much nicer for reading PDFs and the like.
Single ulttawide using two inputs. So use split screen each half using separate cable and then joined together again as single desktop. The advantage is that you can easiliy maximise a window to half of the screen or share only half of your screen in teams etc. But still have a single big desktop where you can drag windows from one side to the others.
From docking station that has multiple outputs but I guess could also work very well with split screen from onboard graphics card.
Only downside I see is if you want to have a full screen game from dedicated graphics card you need to switch off the split screen on the monitor menu.
I’ve been a multi monitor guy for a LONG time, mostly because I use a WM that benefits from it. But I recently moved and the company offered me a pick of monitors under a certain budget, so I decided to pick an ultra wide (34" 21:9) and a regular one (32" 16:9, I wanted smaller because I plan on using it vertically, but ended up preferring having two monitors with the same refresh rate), and sincerely, just the 34 is more than enough, since it arrived first I had to make due with it for a week so I built up some scripts to make it be seen as two monitors by the OS so I could use it as if it were two side by side and that was working great, and when I wanted to game just run my other script and it’s one monitor again so it’s the best of both worlds.
Given the chance in the future I would definitely go for a single 32:9, since I could even make it be 3 (or more) monitors with specific areas designed for slack and others for code, etc. That being said I’m not sure the same is possible on Windows.
<span style="color:#323232;">xrandr --setmonitor LEFT 1720/1x1440/1+0+0 DP-0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xrandr --setmonitor RIGHT 1720/1x1440/1+1720+0 none
</span><span style="color:#323232;">i3-msg reload
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Essentially the first like tells it to only use a 1720x1440 starting at 0,0 area from the DP-0 screen. The second line creates a virtual monitor also with 1720x1440 but starting on 1720,0. The third line just reloads my WM so that it shows the bar at the top nicely.
Edit: obviously this only works if you’re running X11, but I’m sure that Wayland has something similar
Not sure for triple, because you can face the central screen and have two satellites, but for two screens yeah, one wide is much better. I’m not going back! Was always turning my head and having to pick one or the other. Was not convenient at all.
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