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Why 16:10? I don't get it (readit.buzz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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Nigh all media is 16:9. What's this obsession people have with 16:10? Isn't it inconvenient to have black bars along your videos and pictures?

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[–] kjetil 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flashback to ~2008-2009 when all laptops went from 16:10 to 16:9 and we couldn't understand why. 16:9 was for TVs and watching movies. 16:10 was for computers to do work.

While it's true finding 16:9 desktop backgrounds is easier, and watching movies and TVs without black bars is nice, 16:10 is much nice when actually using a computer to do work. Taskbars, toolbars, tabbars, headersbars etc take up a lot of precious vertical space, leaving less space for application content.

[–] nowwhatnapster 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sidebars are the hot new thing. Latest Microsoft apps are all starting to enable them by default

[–] kjetil 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's progress. And yet they removed vertical task manager from Windows 11 😢

My windows laptop is sticking with windows 10 as long as I can, hopefully vertical taskbar is back by the time I'm forced to upgrade. Maybe by then it's windows 12, continuing the tick-tock release cycle of good and bad Windowses 😂

Also, shoutout to Firefox addon TreeStyleTabs for having vertical tab management