Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Killer price on a mini PC Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:20:22 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <118cshs$2v7m0$1@dont-email.me> <118du8n$3b2m6$1@dont-email.me> <118h414$fbrd$1@dont-email.me> <118k6e4$1ktct$1@dont-email.me> <118k92h$1lmpe$1@dont-email.me> <118k99o$1lugq$1@dont-email.me> <118k9tn$1m5fr$1@dont-email.me> <118kd2b$1n865$1@dont-email.me> <118lm86$2478c$1@dont-email.me> <118mr13$2itk3$1@dont-email.me> <6ab0105a$9$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net u5VBQ8j5NJvTLkqwU/OKqAi70IWichbxL9jxM9RGGLJJqjT5PN Cancel-Lock: sha1:dRuOK55upk58rO07t9MzI3MQ4jE= sha256:LB/44Z5CyYK1tQH7jJkZ07JaWVcj7dU8OnHaVCoLrFg= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <6ab0105a$9$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:34846 alt.comp.os.windows-10:195864 comp.os.linux.advocacy:722336 comp.os.linux.misc:91850 Mark Lloyd wrote: > J. P. Gilliver wrote: > >> I think "widescreen" is _not_ a good fit for general computer use; when >> it first came in, it was presented as "do you want to watch movies in a >> little strip across your screen" - but at _that_ point, few people were >> _actually_ watching movies on their computer monitors. But it stayed, >> and we're stuck with it. (IMO it's _still_ not a good shape for web >> pages; I have to do a lot of up-and-down scrolling to read the average >> web page.) > > I try to arrange it so my taskbar is on the side Win11 (by itself) doesn't allow that. > (and the browser links bar is on the side too) so there's more > vertical space for the webpage Firefox does allow that (even Edge does, so I presume Chrome too?) and I now prefer tabs down the right side (don't think Edge allows right instead of left?)