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Ultrawide monitors
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 6 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Ultrawide screen loses per-monitor grouping and moving windows between screensUnreviewed
20202026- Ultrawide single screen loses per-monitor grouping, workspaces and moving windows between screens2025-11-05
- Fullscreening one app on a wide display is harder than with separate monitors2024-10-29
- Single ultrawide screen is a nightmare to manage windows on2023-12-29
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Ultrawide single screen loses per-monitor grouping, workspaces and moving windows between screens2025-11-05
- Fullscreening one app on a wide display is harder than with separate monitors2024-10-29
- Single ultrawide screen is a nightmare to manage windows on2023-12-29
- Tiled windows are too big in halves and too small in thirds, forcing lots of eye and head movement2020-07-26
- Mouse cursor takes long to move across a very wide screen2020-01-26
- Limited vertical height makes it hard to see whole functions or classes2020-01-26