On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:15:11 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Eric Stevens
writes:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:18:53 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Eric Stevens
writes:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 23:13:33 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:01:13 -0600, Ken Springer
wrote:

When I see people with a decent sized widescreen monitor, and they use
it with windows maximised, I just want to cringe.

How then would you react to me with Windows spread over *two* 25" 3K
monitors? :-)

That depends how you use it! For example, if you open a word-processor,
is it maximised across both monitors? (-:
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I justify the use of two screens mainly for image processing:
PhotoShop and Light Room. Image on one screen and all the little
twiddly windows and dockers on another.

But having got two screens it is great (for example) to have Firefox
on one and Agent on the other. Again, a word processor on one and a
spread sheet on another with (searfch) Everything and several examples
of Windows Explorer tucked in a corner.

You use your resources intelligently! What Ken (and I) find cringeworthy
is people who use _maximised_ windows, i. e. a single application full
screen, on a large single monitor. (Especially if they don't realise
that isn't the only option; if they know and _choose_ to, that's their
choice.) [IME, people with two or more monitors usually know what
they're doing; I don't _think_ I've ever seen such a user with only two,
maximised, prog.s running.]

I suppose it's obvious that there's a large dose of arrogance inhabiting
this particular offshoot of the overall thread, starting where Ken
admits to cringing when he sees someone use an application full screen,
on through comments such as "maybe they don't see the error of their
ways".

I think I've been kept in suspense long enough, so it's time to come
clean and tell me/everyone what's wrong with running an application
maximized? What's wrong with running multiple applications, each of them
maximized?

I'm asking for two reasons. One, the unbridled arrogance just bothers
me, and two, my own use case is to use two and sometimes 3 displays,
where each display is likely to have an application running maximized.
About 80% of my applications are run in the maximized state, with the
other 20% (if that) in a windowed state. I use the task bar to switch
between them. Is that wrong? Do I need to make each application's window
as small as reasonably possible so that I can fit more applications on
screen beside each other? So that each window is a tiny peephole through
which I need to scroll around to find what I need? Would that stop the
cringing and the snide comments?

I hope I don't get a reply along the lines of, "well, clearly you've
given it some thought and you're using what works best for you, but
those other clods clearly *haven't* given it any thought at all, and
they are just wrong." My question would be, how can you walk by
someone's desk or office and tell by looking whether they've given
something any thought? That's where the arrogance creeps in, or in this
case, spills in. It's the "I know better how everyone should use their
computer than they do" problem.

Thanks. I feel better. Flame away. :-)