looking for a new monitor since I'm gonna mostly r...

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[elect]

looking for a new monitor since I'm gonna mostly remote soon, I have at the moment a Dell u2715h, a 27" 2560x1440. Given some restrictions at home (kids), multi-monitor setup is probably out of the question, so I'm gonna stick with a single monitor. 2560 pixel-width is at the moment barely enough for two vertical-splitted windows (two are totally fine for me), therefore I'd like something more.. and I think >= 3k pixels would be more than enough for me
Vertically 1440 for 95% of the times are fine, but still I wouldn't dislike some more area also in that dimension. My biggest doubt is the monitor form though: curved or flat. Because I have the feeling that starting at 32" and more, the curvability may gonna help, but I wish some feedbacks about this, all resources online are almost for gaming, nothing for coding.
What do/would you like more, guys, a 32" flat or curved (4k) or a 34 ultra wide (always curved, 4k/5k -at 5k a triple windows is possible-)?
Also, how many of you are using built-in monitor features for reducing the blue light for the eye strain and/or using some eye friendly theme, such as Solarized (light in my case)?

[yogi]

Why not continue with 27" , but get a 4K instead?
Just the resolution bump would give you a huge productivity boost
I've been using LG 27UK650-W for the last 2 years and love it.

I had tweaked the display when I bought it to reduce blue light - I've forgotten how to do it actually. Just one of those things you do once, get it right and forget about it 🙂

[elect]

because I'm afraid it may be too much fatigue for the eyes. Take in account this has to be confortable also on very late hours
I think I'm gonna go with a flat 32"

[Shawn]

idk about guiseppe but I personally wouldn’t ever use my 27" 4k panel without scaling lol, everything’s just too small to be ergonomic at that DPI

[Shawn]

one of my coworkers swears by their 34" curved ultrawide panel at 3440x1440

[Shawn]

mind if I ask why kids prohibit you from having a multi-monitor setup?

[kqr]

yeah half the chance to have all monitors broken 😄

[kqr]

(or quarter?:D)

[elect]

@Shawn this is my standing desk https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/knotten-standing-desk-white-birch-30299485/ = 52cm wide

[elect]

this is all the space I can take for me 😛

[kqr]

maybe something like this could help https://www.alza.co.uk/alzaergo-arm-d20s-usb-d5626027.htm 🙂

[Shawn]

if that’s the exact desk he’s got then I don’t think a c-clamp arm will really help

[elect]

cool object, but unfortunately the desk has no place behind where to clamp/attach. It's plain vertical behind

[Shawn]

if you had the time and the tools you could consider drilling out a couple holes in the desktop slab to mount arms with a different kind of clamp

[elect]

I know, but endangering the desk stability worries me

[kqr]

maybe there are different mechanisms that could be applied

[kqr]

it was just an example/idea