Finding information on the Internet has become increasingly difficult. I look for monitors and information about monitors -> all I find are references to gaming or movie playback. And I wonder: is there really no one left who spends many hours in front of a screen and looks into visual comfort, text rendering quality, etc.?

The result: I bought (at a good price) a 24" Dell Full HD monitor, trusting the widespread opinion that a 24" Full HD is “more than enough” - but those were posts related to video and gaming. I like the color and image rendering, but the text... it's just not good enough. It feels like going back 15 years. I probably should have gone for at least a QHD, but even in that category, all I can find are gaming-oriented models. Office-grade monitors are mostly special order, and there’s very little information out there.

I’ll try to adapt to this one – at least it has decent audio.

#Monitor

@neil I agree. Before this Dell, I had (and still have) a 24" 4K LG monitor from 2017. I used it for many years, but after a couple of hours, it would start to strain my eyes. The new one doesn't cause that issue, so I think the eye strain might be due to something related to that monitor. Still, the LG's higher resolution is noticeable. I’m still deciding whether to take the LG to the office (since I don’t spend much time there) or take the Dell, and then get another higher-resolution monitor for home

@stefano @neil It's been a while since I've used it but in the past I found TFTCentral very helpful in deciding what monitors to buy - https://tftcentral.co.uk/

@stefano @neil FWIW, I find 4K scaled to 1440p on a 27" is the sweet spot for me, but OS level support for scaling is quite variable. macOS works faultlessly, but Linux is a not quite as good (I find KDE on Wayland ok though). Not tried with FreeBSD, but I'd imagine it's similar to Linux, assuming use of Wayland.

@mjturner @neil thank you. I'll have a look at it

@stefano Full HD is the worst resolution tier. I decided a while ago that I don't want to look at blurry text any more, so I went 4K. I cannot imagine going back to a non-upscaled resolution.

@bentsukun Unfortunately, I noticed it 😔

@bentsukun @stefano 12″ Thinkpad, 1024x768, and bitmap fonts. Works wonders. Crisp as nothing else.

@neil @stefano I have a 49" curved ultrawide (LG, office not gaming SKU) and overall I am a fan.

It's effectively 2x 32" 2k monitors side-by-side.

It's great for reading + writing text (95% of my usecase), its more than sharp enough without needing 4K which sometimes behaves badly for getting UI and text scaling just right.

If you aren't primarily standing desk user, you might find it difficult/straining to look at the edges sometimes, but not a problem for me.

@neil @stefano I don't know if this is true or not but I've read that curved monitors can be somewhat annoying when doing CAD or graphic design work. Sometimes lines and vectors that are straight do not appear that way due to the curve in the screen and depuon what is being rendered (and vice versa I guess).

Sounds plausible but guessing would have to be experienced to believe. Not an expensive roll of the dice I'm willing to make.

@neil @stefano FWIW I have a pair of older Benq PD3200U monitors arranged side by side. Fabulous eye strain protection - can work for hours on end. But, being 32" I find them a touch too big (never thought I'd say that!). If I had my time over I'd do the next size down.

@mirabilos @stefano 2560x1600 is a good resolution for a 13" laptop.

@bentsukun @stefano 1280 in the width I can see for 13″ but 800 in the height is definitely not enough.
(FixedMisc [MirOS] does come in a blown-up-to-2x version for precisely this use case, and the more pixels do help with images.)