34" UW with a portrait 27" on the left, PC on the right.

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    1 day ago

    Just a single 49" 32:9 ultra wide - effectively 2x 1440p 27" monitors side by side. It’s a MASSIVE improvement over having two bezels lined up straight ahead and always having my head turned to one side or the other, or having my desk set up asymmetrically with a single monitor head on and one off to the side.

    Samsung G95SC - OLED, 5120x1440p, 240hz, 1800R curve

    It’s rare I need two full 16:9 windows side by side - so for work, 90% of the time I’ve got a 16:9 frame centered, and extra content on the sides (outlook and teams for instance). Window snapping via Microsoft Powertoys - Fancyzones makes this so dead simple, so it’s a quick keystroke to change the snapping zones and then I can do 2 windows side by side when I need it, 2 side by side+my teams, or 3 side by side.

    And for play, let me tell you - games and anamorphic films look SO GOOD on this thing. Absolutely LOVE this monitor.

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        7 hours ago

        Well it certainly comes highly recommended from me! Never pay full price for it - it’s constantly on sale, and it’s cheaper now than the best sale price I could find a year ago - at $1100 currently. If you find it cheaper than that, you’re in really good shape.

        They do have much cheaper versions with the same screen size that are not OLED - but I think it is worth holding out and saving for this one personally.

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      1 day ago

      I used to use a 49" ultrawide too; and let me tell you, with a window manager they are so fucking nice (with a standard desktop like windows; kde or gnome, I hated having to move my mouse that much)

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      Not gonna lie, this is tempting.

      I have “just” two 27"s where one is primary (240hz) im front of me and other is a secondary on the right side for stuff like discord or documentation etc.

      Though I am very unsure about the curve. My primary is curved and it kind of sucks for media.

      Also how do you game on something like this?

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        The curve is very slight - it really just brings the corners around a bit so they’re closer to facing you, but they’re not really. I haven’t used a curved screen before this one, I think I wish it was a tighter 1000R curve but I hear people gripe about those.

        Some games just support ultrawide resolutions natively out of the box - Balatro, It Takes Two, Tomb Raider 2013 trilogy. Others don’t - and there are good mods in those situations by the community. Flawless Widescreen has worked, well, flawlessly for me on games like FFVIIR and Elden Ring. I got FFXV working I just don’t remember how. And to really drive it, you’ll want a decent GPU - I happen to be using a 3090 and it obviously does the trick.