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Plasma on the desktop with the 40" 4K screen with lotsa windows and desktops. Gnome on the laptop, each app full-screen and swipe left-right to switch between them.
Are you gaming on that screen, video editing, or something else? Just curious about the use case for the 40 incher. I feel like I'd be in a neck brace w/ all that real estate.
it's way less neck strain than the usual dual 24" side-by-side. this is like having 4x 20" 1080p screens in a grid but without the annoying bezels, and that's how I'm mostly using it. plus you have the option to expand a window in any direction when you need it, which you can't do in a multi-monitor setup. I arrange the windows in a 2x2 grid, or go smaller, usually 3x2 with keyboard shortcuts, by way of Better Quick Tiles for Plasma 6 (Kwin extension). tried the auto-tilers, hated 'em.
when I'm done with work, jellyfin-media-player in Fullscreen TV mode with a $5 bluetooth remote from the couch for movies and shows.
gaming sure, I run the games in 1080p and the desktop in 4k, so older games allow me to turn on FSR. had problems with Gnome Shell crashing regularly, zero crashes since I switched to Plasma.
That is cool, thanks for describing your setup. I currently have a single 1440p monitor and love having more real estate than a single 1080p screen, but have often longed for a second screen, even a 1080p screen in portrait mode perhaps, idk.
So your computer desk is in your living room and you just move the chair out of the way when you want to watch TV from the couch?
well, living room, it's a single-room-dwelling type of situation. but yeah, move the chair out of the way and browse Jellyfin. I'll post an image in a minute or two when I clear out the desk, kinda embarrassing with the amount of random crap on it.
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the macbook is unrelated, a recent acquisition and in the process of being tamed for Fedora.
it's a n-th hand monitor I got five years ago from some junker who fixes and resells used TVs, he got it by mistake and was super-apologetic for the "missing" remote; it's a monitor, it ain't got none of those. also had no stand so I screwed a VESA mount in a board and it's hanging thus ever since.
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Dope. What game are we looking at in that photo?
Far Cry 5, running in 1080p on a 2160p desktop (alt-tabbing doesn't switch resolutions, so jumping back and forth is seamless)