curved monitors are fucking retarded, 16:9 despite being as shitty as it is reigns supreme and is the sole reason why other formats died off (8:5, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2) and will be why ultrawides never catch on (>hurr movies don't have black bars; yeah, netflix and youtube will do however), horizontal desk space is a precious resource as others have mentioned, monitors are better when taller than they are wider and your picture demonstrates this as people never read 3 pages side by side and it'd be better if you could fit more of a page vertically, also no amount of width will change the tiny viewbox you get on websites that cap the width and mobile phones will ensure that most websites design with verticality in mind
>On steam they are hovering around a few percent of the user base.
half way through 2017 the following cpu models represented just 5% of all of INTELs cpus: the 4790k, 6700k, 7700k, yet if you look at any benchmarks or listen to any tech enthusiast (Jow Forums especially) they'll tell you that amd are uncompetitive with ryzen because intel dominates with single core performance with high end desktop cpus, yet steam figures show that most people simply do not give a shit and will happily buy the horribly ineffective i5/i3 cpus
also steam hardware surverys aren't excellent since you'll get a lot of second and third worlders especially from places like china
Ultrawides
So I like mine, but early on they had some shitty implementations where the format was to narrow.
I have an ultrawide at work with a regular monitor on either side of it
It's pretty nice.
>not using 1:1
For productivity, multiple monitors are cheaper and there is pretty much no appreciable downside to them.
Their use is pretty much limited particular genres of games and movies that were shot in panoramic.
for the same price:
>can get a 21:9 monitor
>can get 2 16:9 monitors (32:9)
>he doesn't use 16:10
>no 18" 21:9 monitor to put in portrait orientation so it matches with a 32" 16:9
>talks about manlet houses even though he owns a manlet desk
Ultrawide are literally cut down 4k panels. Probably the ones that had defects get cut into ultrawides and sold to the gaming retards.
If you want more space you go 4k .
Sadly there isnt 16:10 4k monitors, but a 16:9 4k panel is still bigger than any 16:10 or even 1:1 panel on the market.