Nothing would look good on a square monitor.
If you want a tall monitor, turn it sideways.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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What do you mean by look good though? My question is based on productivity, and why software seems geared towards having top-down functionality on screens that generally provide more width.
A vertical monitor is better for productivity than a square one.
What is a square monitor good for? Seems a jack of all trades and master of none.
Yeah but vertical monitor with extra width is even better π
I tried for a while to use two 16:9 vertically. Like you say, vertical makes a lot of sense and it works great. But web devs seem universally to assume that if itβs a tall narrow screen, to show the mobile version.
But web devs seem universally to assume that if itβs a tall narrow screen, to show the mobile version.
Web Devs are also highly allergic to using the 25% of the screen on both the right and left so only the middle 50% is useful space. It's god damned infuriating!
Remember when PSUs used to have a power port in it that you plugged your monitor in to?
That was a great idea and wish it still existed but I guess they needed all the space for all the millions of peripherals that got added.
I personally think portrait monitors, like a standard modern smartphone, would resolve most of these problems.
Also for programming, most IDEs make good use of the horizontal space and expect a roughly 16:9 screen where the IDE takes up most of the space on that screen. Not that you can't just minimise the side panels but still, it's a helpful feature of the software.
As for why portrait isn't the default, I dunno, but if you start using a portrait monitor at work you'll probably get some coworkers following suit if it's such an improvement.
I like them like that but I often like to do side by side.