Do people at your work use very low resolutions on the computer?

[Zorander]

Plenty of people at my workplace moved to 22in widescreens but stick to the old 1280x1024 resolution (yes, openly ignoring the AR difference). When shown the correct/native resolution, most promptly complained things look too small and demand to have the old resolution restored. Then they resort to increasing the font size and live blissfully in ignorance.

 

[jersiq]

I change mine to 800*600 whenever the IT staff comes around or remotes in. You know, just to troll 'em.

 

[Meghan54]

You know, the real answer to this is:



Who cares? They're not forcing you to put your monitor at that res., so why the angst? Just can't stand someone else being different? Loosen up a little....you'll enjoy life so much more.

 

[Red Squirrel]

When I worked in desktop support I saw lot of people running 800*600 or even 640*768. If I fixed it they complained that "everything is too small" and refused to accept making the icons bigger. I've even seen people running a low res AND make the icons bigger. No joke, 6 icons filled the whole desktop. They were HUGE! I guess if they're happy...

 

[thomsbrain]

IT forces us all to use fucking 1024x768, and locks out our ability to change it. My work-around is to use my own laptop, tethered to my cellphone (they won't let us use their Wi-Fi network, either), and use Citrix to log in to the network. I get like double the work space that way.

 

[Leros]

Everybody is on 24" or 30" displays at native resolution, except for one old guy who can't see very well.

 

[JimmiG]

Some of the older coworkers use lower resolutions like 1024x768 or even 800x600 (we use 22" screens). Simply increasing the size of the fonts isn't enough since many icons and other items remain too small for them.

Unfortunately we've recently switched to a new system for printing orders, which requires a height of 1024 pixels. That has led to a lot of angry calls to the IT department (ie, me).

 

[biostud]

Also before LCD's I remember everyone running CRT's @ 60Hz instead of 85Hz, that was also painful to look at.

 

[Murloc]

Yes, but I'm content to simply let them wallow in their misery.

This.
Some people just don't care about learning. Call me a nerd or whatever, but I'm not gonna waste my energies on who doesn't want to be helped.

You just have to restrain yourself: live and let live. Otherwise you can't be happy.
You just have to let go negative stuff that doesn't impact you directly.

 

[Capt Caveman]

This.
Some people just don't care about learning. Call me a nerd or whatever, but I'm not gonna waste my energies on who doesn't want to be helped.

You just have to restrain yourself: live and let live. Otherwise you can't be happy.
You just have to let go negative stuff that doesn't impact you directly.

What's to learn? Maybe, they prefer to the lower resolution to see the screen better.

 

[Anubis]

Do people at your work use very low resolutions on the computer?

Yes

the reason is all the monitors we have at work run either 1280*1024 or 1440*900. thats all we get issued, anyone who has a monitor larger than 20 inches bought it with their department or experiment money. id wager less than 10 people have a monitor that can do 1920x1080/1200

 

[Spineshank]

Used to see a lot of 800x600 here. But we do a lot of in house software and I believe the lowest you can go in some of our programs now is 1024x768 which most users complain about being to small.

FWIW, my company is probably 80% over the age of 50. Less than 10 of us in the office under 30.

 

[NutBucket]

Also before LCD's I remember everyone running CRT's @ 60Hz instead of 85Hz, that was also painful to look at.

I find this more annoying than low resolution.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Back when we were all on WinXP machines with 19" 1280x1024 monitors, most of my coworkers ran them at 1024x768 instead. My department at least is almost entirely composed of middle aged or older women, and we work on editing text, so it's reasonable to want to reduce eyestrain when you're reading off of a computer screen all day.

Since we upgraded to Win7 with widescreen monitors, I've noticed more people using the adjust DPI settings so text and interface elements are bigger without getting fuzzy. Also some of the programs we use don't fit at those lower resolutions.

 

[LumbergTech]

What's to learn? Maybe, they prefer to the lower resolution to see the screen better.

and they are willfully being less productive

 

[Capt Caveman]

and they are willfully being less productive

If they can't see the screen, how are they being more productive?

 

[PingSpike]

IT forces us all to use fucking 1024x768, and locks out our ability to change it. My work-around is to use my own laptop, tethered to my cellphone (they won't let us use their Wi-Fi network, either), and use Citrix to log in to the network. I get like double the work space that way.

Why would they lock the resolution? That's actually even more idiotic than the people trying to run 640x480.

 

[PingSpike]

I don't do IT anymore but back when I did the place was staffed almost entirely by women and the majority of middle aged to old ones used 800x600 and some even ran 640x480. I knew it was because of eyesight but this was only 5 years ago...I couldn't really understand how they navigated websites or even used MS Office at that resolution. I always had to temporarily change it just to fix their machine because it would leave you a work area of 2 inches in any application that wasn't developed for Windows 95.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Not anymore. Changed all resolutions to max around here.

 

[Imp]

Just remembered.. some fuckwit (genius in terms of ease of moving/maintaining) decided to give most of my office laptops. Makes sense in theory since people do have meetings occasionally, except they're all 15" monitors, and no one ever removes (or even knows how to) their laptop from the docking station. Now we have an entire office full of 50+ year olds using 15" 5:4 screens 1024x768 or 1280x1024 screens. They tried giving me one, but I refused and just got a 19 desktop to run my AutoCAD and GIS stuff.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

Old people like everything bigger

 

[darkewaffle]

Yea, we have a ton of people like this in my workplace. I've tried to compensate by adjusting DPI/icon size/icon spacing/browser zoom/browser text size but it still misses a lot. We use a lot of in-house access programs for instance that become extremely small at high resolutions.