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Re: Desktop Monitors

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On 2025-12-07, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> I got a video card just yesterday, for $100 CDN and it is
> HDMI 2.0 (4K60). Apparently, the computer store chain bought
> at least three hundred of those (they put a piece of tape on
> the side of the box, and they write an item count on the tape as
> the item is removed from the pallet). That's cheaper
> than a lot of current generation cards. It replaces a similar
> kind of card bought years ago for $40 CDN (now that was a gutless
> card!).
>    https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-1030.c2954

When I put the 42" up at work a couple of years ago, the 4K video card
was $250 from Neweggg.

> The too-big monitor is a reference to placing multiple
> monitors on a desktop and the edge of one monitor, blocking
> a second monitor. The combination of all the sizes, has to fit
> for you to use them all properly. There isn't room to replace
> the 1440x900 monitor with a 27" 4K one.

Yes, in that situation it may make sense to use one of the tandem stands
with two monitors. My son-in-law uses one of those at his home desk; and
his laptop's screen is the third screen.

> So while it is OK to go crazy with a single monitor in front
> of you, there are monitor combinations where you have to
> fit them all in. I have other stuff on the desktop besides monitors,
> so the monitor arrangement has to work around the other objects.
> For example, I have two computers, one stacked on top of the
> other, and that tends to block out some of my view.

I have two computers as well: A Windows, and a Linux. But I use a KVM
switch. I mostly use the Windows desktop and then have an SSH session
into the Linux box as well as a browser window and a file manager window
into the Samba mount, when I am working with files in Linux. Mostly, the
only thing I use from the Linux desktop is digiKam; all the other things
I use, run in server mode.

> My desk is 56" wide and 48" deep, and there are still limits
> on the monitor arrangement, due to other stuff on the table
> The reason the desk is 56" wide now, is I built an extension
> on the side of it this summer. Now stuff doesn't fall off it
> any more :-)

Mine is not that deep; if it were, both computers would be behind the
monitor instead of the Linux box being under the desk.
-- 
Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California

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                Desktop Monitors (was: Re: Do I need Controlled Folder Access) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-12-07 14:18 +0000
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