>The other part is that you should have the entire picture in your eyesight w/o moving the neck.
I agree, but that is still the case here. The difference is that the "full picture" no longer occupies the whole monitor.
The amount of windows and content you arrange on a normal office monitor is about one third of my available space. I can arrange my windows in that space and not have to move my neck.
But at a glance, I can also see the contents of 4 other code files in my project that are also visible, as well as my notes, the documentation, the team chat.
Or if I want, I can also see twice the amount of code in any file by having my editor take up the full height of the center third of this monitor.
Basically the monitor goes from being the "full picture" to a canvas where you are free to create any collection of a "full picture" you want, and you can have the leftover building blocks visible on the sides, optionally.
I am sure that if you let all knowledge workers in the world test this setup for a day, a vast majority of them would want to keep it. But since even 8k tv's are going away now, most will never know.
Curved gaming monitors costing more than my TV are being deployed everywhere lately, for productivity work. Most people are used to 27" or 24" low-res monitors and they are getting an upgrade, but i's not a very good one.
Had the panels from 8k tv's been used in monitors and marketed to corporations it would have been so much better!
Perfect for open offices too - no need for desk dividers if everyone is behind a huge screen! ;-)
I have several computers attached to the screen and run Windows, Linux and MacOS.
Of these I think Windows has the best solution with a utility called Fancyzones (part of a collection called Powertoys). I can define areas of any size and shape and easily move windows around so they occupy the defined spaces.
In Linux I have used KDE, which has at least one similar mechanism which works fine too, but was more trickly to set up and configure.
Lately I have also been running hyprland more often and the setup actually works well with a tiling WM. You can tile many times before the windows get too small to be useable!
One thing worth mentioning is that it's kinda tricky to get 8k/60hz working under linux since the TV only does HDMI. I tried several 8k DP to HDMI adapters before I found one that worked. Windows and Mac work fine with a normal 8k HDMI cable.
On the mac I just use manual window management, since most of what I do on the mac tends to just use one main window anyway (garage band, lightroom, photoshop and such).
Personally, I'd consider that large of a screen, a bad working area.