I have a monitor that's almost like this and it's surprisingly nice. It feels like a two-monitor setup. Two actual monitors would probably have been cheaper, but I got mine from work, so it wasn't a factor.

The real advantage of having two actual monitors is being able to flip one vertically for reading code.

EDIT: a word

[–] Milx@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone at my work who has this runs into issues whenever they need to share their screens, apologizing for low resolution or painstakingly resizing every window to mimic multiple screens anyway.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just share one window at a time. I put the meeting on one half and the window I want to share on the other, which makes it 16:9 and works perfectly for what I need to share.

[–] Milx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah people do that, until you're sharing a code window and then need to see if it works on a browser and then your dev tools are popped out so you have three windows...or you don't want to just have one meeting and one window visible, you also want slack or a window for googling or something similar...

It's all workaround-able, it's just minor annoyance after minor annoyance lol.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So new technology will require new solutions to operate more effectively? Just another turn of the wheel.

[–] Milx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the benefit of the new technology doesn't outweigh the slew of minor annoyances associated with making it work in a world designed for regular sized monitors.

[–] PlutoParty@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

If just sharing one window isn't feasible for these reasons, my go-to is to use OBS.

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bought one after some months of remote work in 2020. Then when I started my new job they gave me another one (different manufacturer but exact same panel size). I needed to rearrange my desk a lot, but holy shit so much room for error messages!

Yes, I'm a Java developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

It was either that or a C++ programmer. Those template error messages are gnarly.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real advantage of two monitors is that you can turn one off if you don’t need the full 50000px width.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I'm concerned the advantage is I can have three windows (or three editor views) tiled horizontally and each one is the perfect width. A half width (half of 1080p/16:9) is too narrow and a full width window wastes space, but a 2/3 (of 1080p) width window is about perfect. If I tried to do that with two regular monitors, the middle window would be split across the bezel.

*When I say 1080p, I really mean the aspect ratio. My monitor is effectively a double width 1440p monitor, but with the display scaling I use the space is effectively 1080p.