2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    40•11 months ago

    You say that now, but just imagine you’ve slept wrong and kinked your neck but still have to get things done. Now you can set the display to 22 degree rotation but leave the monitor horizontal. Voila, the day is saved!

    • @AbidanYreEnglish
      22•11 months ago

      What’s the over/under on someone hooking an Arduino to an accelerometer on top of a monitor to automatically keep the display level? One week?

      • @[email protected]English
        8•11 months ago

        You’re looking at it wrong. You don’t want to attach the gyroscope to the monitor, you want to attach it to your head