The difference between a widescreen and ultrawide monitor isn’t as stark as that between the old 4:3 screens and 16:9 wide panels. An ultrawide display is more like having two widescreen monitors pushed together, with no gap down the middle - and if you’re a multi-screen user you’ll already know the benefits extra desktop space brings.
Not only does it mean you can have more apps open and visible at the same time - Windows 11 and macOS’s ability to cleanly tile apps across the screen comes in handy here - but it removes the hierarchy of having primary and secondary monitors that, unless you’ve bought a matched pair, will be of different sizes, brightnesses and colour configurations.
