I'm needing to purchase a new monitor(s) to work from home. I am very near-sighted and have very bad astigmatism neither of which are totally correctable. I also now need reading glasses for almost anything within arms length.
Right now at the office I use two cheapo ViewSonic 27" monitors at 1920x1080 and sit about 22" from them. I find reading much more comfortable at 125% scaling but I lose so much screen real estate that I usually leave it at 100% and just zoom or lean in closer as needed.
My typical usage is a bunch of putty/ssh/command line sessions, a handful of web interfaces, Outlook, and an IM client.
I'd really like to have more screen real estate but I know that I have to increase the resolution to do that. I've been looking very hard at one of the 34" ultrawide monitors at 3440x1440 like the Dell U3419w but I'm afraid everything will be too small for me to read comfortably so I'll end up having to turn the scaling up and messing with font sizes so I won't actually gain any real estate.
Any opinions or guesses on how much the larger 34" 21:9 screen will make up for the higher resolution for someone blind as a bat? Or, is going down to a single 21:9 just not feasible for me considering all the factors?
Right now at the office I use two cheapo ViewSonic 27" monitors at 1920x1080 and sit about 22" from them. I find reading much more comfortable at 125% scaling but I lose so much screen real estate that I usually leave it at 100% and just zoom or lean in closer as needed.
My typical usage is a bunch of putty/ssh/command line sessions, a handful of web interfaces, Outlook, and an IM client.
I'd really like to have more screen real estate but I know that I have to increase the resolution to do that. I've been looking very hard at one of the 34" ultrawide monitors at 3440x1440 like the Dell U3419w but I'm afraid everything will be too small for me to read comfortably so I'll end up having to turn the scaling up and messing with font sizes so I won't actually gain any real estate.
Any opinions or guesses on how much the larger 34" 21:9 screen will make up for the higher resolution for someone blind as a bat? Or, is going down to a single 21:9 just not feasible for me considering all the factors?