On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 11:13:21 -0600, joe wrote:

If you are unhappy using two monitors, get yourself a 4k monitor. At the
same time you could get a PC with intel processor. You can solve the
problem in hours, not days or weeks with the approaches you take.

Hi Joe,
You are astute.

We know each other well, "joe" (mostly from the mobile phone ngs), so you
are completely correct that throwing money at the problem solves
everything.

I do not disagree.

I am a person who saves our precious resources. Most people are not.

For example, I compost all my leftovers so as to reduce, literally to zero,
the amount of trash I have to put out at the curb, and I have decades-old
vehicles simply because it's a waste of resources to buy new ones (the
sales tax of about 10% alone on a $50K car is more than repairs, where, as
you may know, "joe", I do all my own repairs, from vehicle alignment, to
mounting, repairing, & balancing my own tires, to brakes & cooling systems,
and where I write detailed tutorials on the net like I did recently for how
to replace a clutch (usually with HUNDREDS of pictures, to help noobs like
me out there).
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.home.repair/qEhph1MmSKs/S_R2Y4gRBwAJ

Daily, I conserve our precious resources, where, I agree with you, it takes
zero intelligence to just throw money at a problem such as how to organize
dual monitors.

But I'd rather solve the problem using intelligence.

Philosophically, I've solved the search problem using intelligence (where,
I posit that if you have to search for anything on your own computer, then
you already lost the battle).

For me, I made the "taskbar" the single point for "action" on the computer
monitor, where that taskbar contains EVERYTHING anyone would need.
o It contains the Microsoft "Start" stuff
o It contains pinned folders (which then contain the key folders)
o It contains pinned shortcuts
o It contains the cascaded WinXP menu (literally copied over from WinXP)
o It contains a pinned folder of "lesser used" links (aka "Favorites")
o It contains notifications (although I limit them to a minimum)
etc.

The one thing I haven't yet figured out how to do with the taskbar is how
to make it cascade to a menu system of just folders. Apparently the only
way to do that is to use the "actual" folders, which is ridiculous.

So that's the only thing missing in making the taskbar the *start* point
for *everything*.

And yet, with dual monitors, the one thing that changes the most, is the
taskbar!

Since you spend money on numerous phones and other electronic devices to
give away, getting the proper hardware to do what you are doing should
be easy.

While you are correct "joe", in that I give away about a dozen smartphones
a year to friends and family (and they give me stuff too, e.g., I've almost
never had to pay for my iPads simply because I would never waste the money
on them unless I had to, so people give them to me, for free) - but "gifts"
are very different things, "joe".

Gifts are things you give willingly without concern for the cost.
You only are concerned with the joy that it brings the recipient.
Almost always, the recipient gives back a nugget of value, in some respect.

That's why I give so freely on Usenet, for example.
For the joy of giving (and getting back nuggets of wisdom, in return).

--
Hint: I'm a believer in Usenet being a "gift" of nuggest of knowledge!