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What are your favorite desktop customizations?
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On top of @psilotop@lemmy.world's bit about monitors today being bigger, multi-monitor setups are also more common. I haven't used a single monitor system as one of my main PCs (work or personal) in at least a decade. Being able to "slam" down and left to hit Start is a big part of why the corner was originally chosen, but if that's just gonna get you to some random position on the bottom of an adjacent monitor, you're back to requiring mouse precision, and the button may as well be moved more toward the center to get average travel distance down.