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On Windows and Mac, you can rotate your monitor 90 degrees, or even 180 degrees if you\u2019re a vampire, but that\u2019s it. Well, macOS lets you pick 270 degrees, too, but that\u2019s just 90 degrees in the other direction, so don\u2019t get too excited. Linux, on the other hand, has no problem with chaos, so you can rotate your display to any degree you\u2019d like. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Tom\u2019s Hardware published<\/a> a story about this in late December, pointing to a blog from a developer called xssfox<\/a>, who said there was one perfect monitor rotation for developers, and it\u2019s not the regular landscape view, nor is it portrait, AKA 90-degree rotation. 22 degrees, they insisted, is perfect \u2014 at least on an ultrawide display. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n This, they said, is because it \u201cprovides the longest line lengths,\u201d and gets rid of \u201cthat pesky 80 column limit.\u201d They added that one disadvantage is that your webcam will slide away, but I\u2019d imagine a little duct tape could handle that. There are instructions in the blog<\/a> on achieving it, but needless to say, even on Linux, it\u2019s not totally straightforward and requires a tool called xrandr<\/a> and the input of lots of numbers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n