even if you live in a terminal all day 1280 x 720 is just too small to be practical.
edit - I too once basked in the warm rays of a 320x200 CRT, it's OK at the time if that's all you've ever experienced, but it's hard to go back to that from 4k.
It was possible to achieve a lot with just 320x200 on 8-bit systems.
Or on programmable calculators (TI, HP, etc.), with just 128x64 or so screen.
Or on Amiga (704|640)x(200|256|400|512).
Or VGA PC 640x480. VGA was for the first time truly enough for an IDE. SVGA 800x600 soon followed. And 1152x864, etc.
So one should definitely be able to manage with 1280x720.
I think we can adapt to whatever is available. I guess one could even manage software development with just a single line (320x8, 40x1 characters) display. It'd certainly be far from optimal, but you could do it.
Of course now I enjoy 4K resolution and multiple monitors...
I think we can adapt to whatever is available. I guess one could even manage software development with just a single line (320x8, 40x1 characters) display. It'd certainly be far from optimal, but you could do it.
Or even a dumb terminal (TTY) that prints to physical paper.
Everyone is trying to show off their nerd cred by bragging about how small their terminals are, but you're right. We have bigger, higher res screens for a reason these days: because they're better. And what's better than one terminal window? Two, side by side. Or four. Or four with a browser window open too. Not possible at 300x200, infinitely possible at 4k.
Hell, right now I have three terminals open. One that I'm using to make changes to a file, another that I'm using to just hit the up arrow and enter to scp the file to a remote server after every change, and another to tail the log file in case there's any errors popping up. Could I do it with one window? Sure. Can I use screen to make it seem like I have three? Of course. But why would I bother when I've got tons of real estate?
Well let's see, I use a 6x10 font. 1280/6=213 characters horizontally. 720/10=72 characters vertically. I think that is more than enough for a screen that size. Sure I would miss being able to have a zillion terminals open at once, but you pay for portability.
The most popular resolution nowadays is still 1366x768, so I would not agree with you there. I have that resolution on my 11" cheomebook and its fine, a 1080p panel would be a big improvement sure but its very far from unusable.
More for people who never leave terminal or for teaching kids linux.