1y ago

Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing

www.tomshardware.com Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing

2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop.

Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing::A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.

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1y ago

TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best

www.tomshardware.com /monitors/linux-is-the-only-os-to-support-diagonal-pc-monitor-mode-dev-champions-the-case-for-22-degree-rotation-computing

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1y ago

Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop?

www.tomshardware.com /monitors/linux-is-the-only-os-to-support-diagonal-pc-monitor-mode-dev-champions-the-case-for-22-degree-rotation-computing

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ITT no one seems to realize it’s a joke.
- It’s a custom mode for people developing Angular.
- It's hard to tell in a world where people still use emacs.
  
  Why the drive by? elispOS is a perfectly valid operating system. It even has a built in editor!
  
  By making a task more complex than it needs to be, people can trick themselves into believing they are performing more efficiently.
- Screen orientation is no laughing matter!
  
  Back in my day there were just two orientations. All these variations are…unnatural. Your screen came out of the box in landscape or portrait, and I don’t believe in any of this “diagonal” nonsense.

The original blog post (significantly more informative and shorter than the article): https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/
- Oh shit xssfox! She once blasted my code on Twitter 🤣
- It also mentions that the 22 degrees is based on your monitor and that was what they settled on, and even goes on to provide a handy calculator to figure out your own best angle.

Has science gone too far?
- Has science gone too far?
  Science isn't about why, it's about why not.
  
  “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.“
- Hasn't science not gone too far enough already?

I tried this but all my icons kept tumbling to the bottom-left.

I'm starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.

It's pretty cool to have that as an option, but good lord it looks annoying to use that monitor arrangement.
- You say that now, but just imagine you've slept wrong and kinked your neck but still have to get things done. Now you can set the display to 22 degree rotation but leave the monitor horizontal. Voila, the day is saved!
  
  What's the over/under on someone hooking an Arduino to an accelerometer on top of a monitor to automatically keep the display level? One week?
- Dual monitor in diagonal mode to get a perfect diamond orientation!
  ...I'm sure there's some arcade game that plays on some awkward display that's designed to be a diamond or even diagonal...
  
  Well, arcade machines used CRT displays. Not sure someone was crazy enough to build cabinets in which you'd have to rig those heavy bastards so they rest on a corner.

Are you judging my orientation?
- LGBTQIA+!=/90
  Edit: maybe LGBTQIA+mod90!=0 is better

no longer need to worry about that pesky 80-column limit
Um... What? Even a 13" laptop fits more than three times that many characters.
- It's a text mode joke

I like the monitor to be turned in such a creative way, but why have they turned the windows and the text back to the boring old horizontal/vertical?
:-)
- I'm not sure how joking you are, but of course, that can be achieved by using a horizontal resolution and just angling the monitor diagonally
  
  Always as much as possible. What else is there.