Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing::A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.
The original blog post (significantly more informative and shorter than the article): https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/
Oh shit xssfox! She once blasted my code on Twitter 🤣
It also mentions that the 22 degrees is based on your monitor and that was what they settled on, and even goes on to provide a handy calculator to figure out your own best angle.
Has science gone too far?
Has science gone too far?
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.“
Hasn’t science not gone too far enough already?
I tried this but all my icons kept tumbling to the bottom-left.
I’m starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.
Are you judging my orientation?
LGBTQIA+!=/90
Edit: maybe LGBTQIA+mod90!=0 is better
Mixed dpi, multi monitor support when?
Can we now have a 22 degree desk?
Get me a second, horizontal screen in front of it and it might just be a moiré!
The developer has given up on “boring” straight monitors… Yeah ok. :)
Have fun with screen tearing
ITT no one seems to realize it’s a joke.
It’s a custom mode for people developing Angular.
It’s hard to tell in a world where people still use emacs.
