> For "infinite vertical space" you can do 9:16, i.e. portrait.
The top feels too high for me then. Most ergonomic advice says your eyesight should see the top of the monitor horizontally doesn't it?
Also you will run into some web interface that was designed with landscape in mind sooner or later.
I have a friend who keeps two 16:9 monitors, one landscape and one portrait. That may work.
> That said, widescreen is quite useful for two 8:9 windows side by side, which works less well on more square ratios.
Matter of taste. I prefer multiple smaller monitors so i can keep a full monitor in my field of view. What you describe requires a monitor so large that you can't look at it entirely from programming distance.
> Matter of taste. I prefer multiple smaller monitors so i can keep a full monitor in my field of view
I think this is mostly due to software support, e.g. for ultrawides (21:9) you often can have it pretend to be two or three separate monitors. At that point the only difference between multiple smaller monitors and one wide one is whether you have bezels.
That said, in my opinion the problem is not the aspect ratio but the number of pixels. For example, I could take my 2560x1440 (16:9) display and put a black bar on the right to make it 1920x1440. That would be a "better" ratio, but having the extra horizontal pixels does not hurt (e.g. for a dock). The problem is that Xx1080 is just not enough vertical pixels, period. No matter whether it is 1920x1080 or 1080x1080.
Huawei Mateview is 3840x2560, so you even get a few more vertical pixels for a 3:2 aspect ratio. There also is the Surface Studio at 4500 x 3000, which, however, is an all-in-one.
I haven't tried either of them, but there are (expensive) options.
The top feels too high for me then. Most ergonomic advice says your eyesight should see the top of the monitor horizontally doesn't it?
Also you will run into some web interface that was designed with landscape in mind sooner or later.
I have a friend who keeps two 16:9 monitors, one landscape and one portrait. That may work.
> That said, widescreen is quite useful for two 8:9 windows side by side, which works less well on more square ratios.
Matter of taste. I prefer multiple smaller monitors so i can keep a full monitor in my field of view. What you describe requires a monitor so large that you can't look at it entirely from programming distance.