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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:31:04AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote |
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> Today 1920x1080 on a 23" screen still doesn't look like a large |
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> working environment. Maybe if I'd never had greater resolution on |
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> 17" and 19" CRTs, and come from 1024x768 on a 15" LCD, I'd think |
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> it HUGE. Part of the issue is that I've gotten used to using apps |
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> open fullscreen (sans GKrellM) on this size desktop, so whenever |
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> I put two apps side-by-side something gets lost. I'm sure in time |
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> it would grow on me, just as I've now, in the last year or less, |
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> gotten okay with using a second workspace (first time in 10 years |
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> with Fluxbox). It's exclusively for Teamviewer, though. |
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I doggedly stuck with one workspace, until the running-programs tabs |
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on the launchpad became ridiculously crowded. Then I went to the |
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opposite extreme, and now have 11 workspaces. Each workspace has |
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related stuff open in it. |
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> As for a 27" 2560x1440 display for $600 ... cold day in Hades comes |
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> to mind. IMO $200 is _very_expensive_ for a computer monitor, |
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> unless you're doing high end graphics work in Adobe products for |
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> commercial printing and need color calibration. But then, you'd not |
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> be using a Linux OS for that. |
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Give it a year or 2, and the price will come down. Back in my more |
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foolish days, in a previous century, I paid over $1,000 (including tax) |
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for a 19" NEC MultiSync 95 CRT monitor and it still works today. See |
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http://www.cueproductions.com/forsale/NECMultiSync.html |
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http://lahore.saintclassified.pk/nec-multisync-95-19-crt-monitor-conditon-good-ad-390941 |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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