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
    18•11 months ago

    Dual monitor in diagonal mode to get a perfect diamond orientation!

    …I’m sure there’s some arcade game that plays on some awkward display that’s designed to be a diamond or even diagonal…

    • @[email protected]English
      2•11 months ago

      Well, arcade machines used CRT displays. Not sure someone was crazy enough to build cabinets in which you’d have to rig those heavy bastards so they rest on a corner.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•11 months ago

          Now make the mirrors controllable and let the game do crazy optic full screen rotations, panning and zooming.