I have been thinking about getting a wider screen.
Most of the wider screens on offer seem to be curved.
I have been wondering
I would appreciate hearing any opinions or experiences
I LOVE my curved monitors… I wouldn’t like anything below 31" curved though… Or ultrawide (which seem to have limited vertical space)…
My layout - the 3 curved monitors are 31.5" QHD (2560x1440) - and the flat monitor above them is also 31.5" QHD :
I’ve tried gaming with all 3 curved monitors plugged into my Linux machine - not a single game on Linux seemed to support multiple monitors… Which is a shame - I played Serious Sam 3, on Linux and used three monitors (all were old 4:3 1280x1024) for a “panorama”… that was 10+ years ago - disappointing that’s no longer possible (I’m sure it is - but I can’t be arsed tweaking).
I have a 27 inch Samsung curved monitor, but it only has HDMI, which it had VGA!!!
That is strange. Most of them have displayport and hdmi.
All 4 of my 32" QHD monitors have DisplayPort and HDMI…
I use DisplayPort on my Linux desktop (Ubuntu) to drive two monitors - which leaves me a spare HDMI and a spare DPort on my GPU (I sometimes use the HDMI for my display drawing tablet)…
I use HDMI from both Macs - both require dongles on their Thunderbolt ports (2021 MBP only comes with 2 USB C style ports - one is Thunderbolt).
One day I’d like to try revisting multi-monitor gaming and use all three curved monitors… (my Radeon RX 6600 supports 4 displays - per above 3 x DisplayPort + 1 x HDMI).
I’d love to play a driving or flying simulator with a curved panorama…
My current monitor is 24 in flat.
I cant fit a VM plus a browser across the screen
I thought about it once but gave up. I’m not gaming, and I don’t have room on my desk.
That may be what that other port is it is just labeled RGB, whatever I like the monitor!!!
Ths forum post might be useful about curved monitors…
My desk is about 1.5 metres wide - that curved monitor panorama extends about 1" (2.5mm) either side of the sides of my desk - but - I like it…
Honestly I’d rather they were all one computer - but a whole bunch of work stuff doesn’t work, or run, on Linux… 100% of it mostly works (half arsed amittedly) on MacOs…
The MacBook on my right side is from work - I have to use that to connect to work email and teams and sync various things that need PingID MFA…
All of them are encrypted - the Linux box in the middle - which is my Synergy KVM server - with LUKS…
And because I’m using Synergy KVM - my clipboard is shared across - and Synergy uses SSL - so even clipboard sharing is still encrypted - it’s not fully secure - for sure… but why make it easy for malefactors?
In between the Macbooks - there’s just enough room for a Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard II (it’s the same keyboard you get on a Thinkpad) and a mouse - and I refuse to use anything else… The ThinkPad keyboard has a trackpoint - AND - a MIDDLE MOUSE button - so I can middle button paste - and MacOS terminal app (I use iTerm2) supports “select copy into clipboard” when you drag select text - AND - middle button paste - yeah - I know Mac mouses don’t have buttons - but I don’t use an Apple mouse - but MacOS supports all the buttons all your mouses have 
- it’s UNIX FFS!
Sorry - long rant… I’ll keep using Linux - and BSD - and MacOS - one of my favourite authors Neal Stephenson :
He wrote a great essay on the power of the shell and CLI and using Linux - in the late 1990s?
Anyway - when Steve Jobs brought NexT into Apple and ported BSD into the Apple ecosystem - and Apple OS/X was a Unix system - Neal dropped Linux and stuck with Apple… Apple’s even better now they’re back on RISC processors
I think I have to consider my glasses.
My flat monitor is about 30 in from my eyes. … I could move it closer.
My glasses are multifocal… from screen distance to reading distance.
So I suppose a curved screen would keep the screen distance constant as one moved to the edge of a screen.
I did not realise there were degrees of curvature available.
Can anyone answer the question … does a straight line display as a curve? That matters as I do a lot of graphs.
I use a bench … keep my desk free for paperwork.
It is about 8ft x 3ft… huge space … holds my desktop, printer, modem, hub, power boards, and a mess of wires and paper.
I just heard Michael Kennedy on one of his podcasts, Python Bytes, talk about his large, curved monitor. He had more than one monitor and decided to go ultra-wide and curved. He said it bothered him because of his glasses. Here is the section of the transcript from that show.
26:30 all right um so i recently got a new computer for a new monitor for black friday which has led to an
26:36 interesting problem which i want to send as a recommendation because i i got a really cool
26:41 answer for people so i got a 40 inch wide screen curved monitor and it is a bizarre thing to work
26:48 on let me tell you when you move windows left and right it feels like you’re in a cylinder and the
26:52 cylinder is rotating it’s like so big but the other problem is i have glasses and i have to have
26:59 like a reading portion of the glasses because my regular vision is so bad that when you correct it
27:04 the reading part becomes really hard it’s like it’s it’s bad so i have to have the reading part
27:09 but on a huge monitor like this it’s more like foveated rendering like there’s little parts of
27:14 the screen you look at that’s clear and then the rest of it’s fuzzy like what is going it’s really
27:19 disorienting so my actual recommendation is i actually went and bought some dedicated computer
27:25 glasses that the prescription is so that my eyes focus at my arm’s length and i found this place
27:31 that sounds like ridiculous right like glasses are expensive but at this place i buy direct i got
27:36 frames for nine dollars and lenses for 30 bucks you just upload your prescription and they just
27:40 ship it to you so i recommend people who have like a little bit fuzziness in their vision and
27:46 because for the same reasons i described like uh at least this place i buy direct check it out just
27:50 upload your prescription and get computer glasses it’s a pain to take them on and off but
27:54 man it is nice to see clearly again anyway i was i was living in the laptop fine but i couldn’t do
27:59 it this 40 inch monitor like half of what was in my vision was blurry no matter what i did i
28:03 couldn’t do jerking your head around trying to read the top of the screen yeah it was really just i
28:08 had to like put my head at weird angles or different parts of it because it’s so vague okay
Sounds like the focussing experience can be upsetting.
I was not thinking of anything nearly as big as 40 in.
Maybe I just increase my 24in to 27 in and stay in flatland?
Me, too. My son has a curved monitor (32”) next to a 24” flat. The curved one doesn’t distort spreadsheets, but it’s still too much real estate for me. 27” is very comfortable.
I’m pretty happy with three 27” flat monitors. The price was really good in 2021 when I bought them, $145 each. There have been a few times I wished they were 32”, but that would have been quite a bit more.
Is displayport the same as VGA?
No. DisplayPort is more like HDMI. It carries both audio and video in a digital format.
Here are what the different connectors look like.
Thanks for sharing this. Bookmarked!
No.. Displayport is as good a resolution as hdmi. Dell computers use it.
My AMD Radeon6400 graphics card has a Displayport and a HDMI outlet
I use a curved monitor, an LG 38” but it’s not that curvy in my opinion. Frankly, I never noticed distorted lines or anything of that sort.
Also not sure about eyesight benefit but i do thing it reduces the width a little so I have to move my eyes and neck slightly less to look at extereme left and right.
I also find it easier to use for split view work.
