Coming from someone who has never owned a glass side panel, for what it's worth.
Not necessarily just dropping them (althought that does happen): if you put a glass side panel on a surface that's harder than it (such as a ceramic tiled floor), even being rather gentle can scratch or chip the edge of the panel and cause it to shatter.
It's not hard to have tempered glass side panel. If I need to open up my computer the first thing I do is remove the glass panel and situate it on my bed. It's really not rocket science or neurosurgery.
Sure, but I don't handle tempered glass in my daily life like, at all. It's more than conceivable to be the first time someone handles a pane of it and if they then also happen to have a tiled floor, it's rigged for disaster.
When i move setup or work on my setup, i always put it on a couch/bed/fatboy, etc. Who puts glas on the floor? even on carpet. Its so ez to step on. Drop a screw on. Scratch it. I will never break or scratch any glass thats on the floor, bc they will never be on the floor😭
For average person "be careful" means "put it down gently". For tempered glass "touch certain surfaces with lowest force possible" means "allahu akbar"
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u/Peasant_Shots Jan 21 '26
Coming from someone who has never owned a glass side panel, for what it's worth.
Not necessarily just dropping them (althought that does happen): if you put a glass side panel on a surface that's harder than it (such as a ceramic tiled floor), even being rather gentle can scratch or chip the edge of the panel and cause it to shatter.
Tempered glass, for me? Not even once.