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I swear I still get letterboxes on a 16:9 television watching at least some movies. And of course I get pillarboxes for days watching "fullscreen" pan & scan DVDs or anything shot for TV before 2010.
16:10 is a pretty good laptop aspect ratio, but on the desktop I don't think I'm giving up my 21:9 monitor. For gaming it's simply majestic and having enough real estate for CAD and a spreadsheet open side by side and actually get stuff done is something I won't give up.
Actually i have and love my 21:9, but it was a weird journey.
The most common resolution for them is 3440x1440 21:9
At work i use a 2560x1600 16:10
You may see my problem, i was not going to give up those 160 vertical pixels. So i got a 3840x1600 instead…
Which comes down to the same 21:9..
I think the reason its not a problem is cause how rarely your only using a single fullscreen window on such ultrawides.
Majestic for gaming ind.. and the gpu caught fire again.
my RX7900GRE doesn't have any issue pushing 1440p ultrawide.