Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop?

neidu2@feddit.nl to Linux@lemmy.ml – 258 points – Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing
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Thanks to @redcalcium@lemmy.institute for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

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This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

"What's stopping you from developing for diagonal mode?"

Diagonal Mode

No, it's the lack of support in web APIs. Every api is based on width and height, viewport width, viewport height. Nothing allows you to find the angle of the display, rotate DOM elements to align, wrap based on diagonal boundaries etc.

Ackshually the social network you're mentioning has changed its name so instead of "Tweets" they should be "Xeets" (like sheets por shits if you prefer).

!I love how people refuse to use its new name!<

Spoilers don't work how they do on reddit, you need to type

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It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

It was a mistake to come down from the trees if you ask me. These days there's even people saying we should of stayed in the water were life was simpler.

Of course there's the total extremists who think life was better as a single celled microbe. Those people are always hard to talk to.

We should HAVE stayed in the water. The real fringe radicals are those who defend the idea that crystals are alive. I think they're lesser lifeforms who don't deserve social security

Is it really 1st of April already

The time is flying fast this year...

Two facts:

  1. I love people doing weird things with tech.
  2. I absolutely hate this.

This doesn't work on Wayland lol

Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.

Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its --transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don't know, I haven't been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.

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I'd rather get three mid range 1440p monitors , stack two horizontal and the third over the two horizontals but offset. It would probably still cost less than one of those ultrawides.

Who am I kidding. My cheap ass would do neither.

I see their point, but they need to stop microdosing if they lack the self-control or memory to keep the walls from getting a bit runny.

Redcalcium provided a much better link. I've edited my post accordingly.

I mean everyone can buy this, they only need money.

EDIT: Uh, this comment used to hold a reply to a completely different comment elsewhere. Disregard.

Perfect, just what I need if I set my laptop on my laptop stand the wrong way!

I would constantly be turning my head, even though I wouldn't need to, if my monitor were rotated at a weird angle like that.

All us ricers, assemble!

If we need to start supporting diagonals, I'm quitting webdev for good