I’m mainly curious about software developers here, or anyone else whose computer is somewhat central to their life, be it professional or hobbyist.
I only have two monitors—one directly in front of me, and another to the right of it, angled toward me. For web development, I keep my editor on the main screen, and anything auxiliary (be that a dev build, a video, StackOverflow, etc.) on the side screen.
I wouldn’t mind a third monitor, and if I had one, I’d definitely use it for log/output, since currently it’s a floating window that I shuffle around however necessary. It could be smaller than the other two, and I might even turn it vertical so I could split the screen between output and a terminal, configuring a AutoHotKey script to focus the terminal.
What about y’all?
[ cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13864053 ]
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Web developer, couldn’t go without three monitors. Just three 1080p panels. Center monitor has the code editor, right has the browser, and left has the ticket or designs or the music player or Slack.
Basically, for all situations, left is communication, center is the application I’m using (game, ide, etc.), right is information (documentation, other resources, guides, or whatever else). What each application is changes based on what I’m working on, but the function is the same essentially always.
Same except opposite for me. Communication on the right, info on left
Tilling WM is all I need baby
I like the single ultrawide, maybe with the laptop screen for a meeting app. Two monitors just feels like a compromise and for a little extra you can just remove the border entirely
Same, ultrawide with a split screen where it’s 75% my main productive environment and 25% our in-house chat, and a second desktop configuration that’s 50:50 between browser and text processor to write documentation and stuff.
My laptop screen defaults to my email plus calendar view, and will be used for video calls if needed.
At home I have 4 screens, 3 in a row and one over top of the center.
The bottom ones change based on what I am doing. Games, browser, IDEs, consoles, terminal windows, etc.
The top is always a better in the left 2/3rd mostly playing music or videos. The right third is Element/Matrix which bridges in all my other chats (FB, WhatsApp, signal, telegram, Discord, gmessages, etc) so I can see them in one tidy spot.
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At work I have 8 screens 6 in a 2 tall by 3 wide config, a big one on the side, and another touch screen on the other side. Which is all used for control and monitoring… And often feels like not enough when things get busy.
For work, I have 2 monitors, and my docked laptop. The main two monitors are hugely beneficial for software development, as I can reference design docs or requirements while writing code, or I can have the debugger running on one screen, while the app runs on the other.
The laptop screen is where Teams and Outlook sit, so I can glance over at messages from the team, and maybe respond, without having to swap around any of my workspace.
Yeah this is me. I love this set up.
I dabble in development but not all day. I’m an accountant. My laptop monitor is usually music, chats, video calls. The other two are just whatever I’m working on emails, spreadsheets, browser based applications. I would absolutely miss having the third monitor.
Presently my daily driver is a Lenovo t490s. The laptop monitor is HD but I don’t think it can support more than 1920 on the monitors on the dock. I’d love to move up to all HD one day. That would be amazing. I’m near sighted so smaller-than-usual text is quite comfortable. having HD would give me so much more usable space within my field of view.
I use multiple monitors for audio production. My use case is a bit weird since I code Csound and use a DAW, which is unconventional. It’s great for having the DAW up on the 4k, and some code or docs or both on the 1080p, 144Hz. If you didn’t guess from the mixture of resolutions and frame rates, I’ve got gaming covered as well.
Truthfully, the 4k probably has the real estate to do all that on its own, but it was the last monitor I bought and why not use the other? I’m too lazy to figure out a setup to hook up the other 1080s I have lying around. (And don’t need the space in any case)
Not a software dev but tech is central to my life.
3 monitors for normal use
1 - personal streaming, video meetings
2 - remote business desktop access, main personal browsing window
3 - online chat presence window, personal email client, other
3 monitor gaming
3 monitors for racing simulators and any games that support it (which make sense)
Single monitor gaming
1 - Game related content on left 2 - Game window in center 3 - Game related social media or streaming
3 monitor home labbing
1 machine or app per monitor Triple monitor stare and compare windows GUI / CLI / Monitoring system interface
I didn’t realize how extensively I used my monitors until this exercise. Feel better about the spend and space tax related to it.
What is a rainbow computer?
I presumed he meant Apple because of the logo. But maybe I am very old…
I assume RGB stuff, but that’s a gamer thing. Personally, I hate RGB crap. I got a new GPU the other day and it had some LEDs on it, on by default. I was happy when I noticed it had a switch to turn them off.
Single large 48” 4K gang here. It’s like 4x 24”+ 1080p monitors in a square with no bezels.
Do you use a monitor or a 4K TV?
4K TV. Found some on RTINGs that was good for a monitor for like $400. It’s not a gaming monitor and it’s 60Hz, but for teams, outlook, code, spreadsheets, etc it works great with static content.
Software engineer. I have a laptop to which I attach a curved widescreen monitor and a split mechanical keyboard with rainbow LEDs. The keyboard travels with me, and I have similar monitors at home and at work
I’m in IT/remote administration and have 3 monitors. The left is my main screen and where ticketing/remote windows live, middle screen is email/chats/research, and the right screen is a smaller, portrait oriented monitor for reading long documents (or trying to follow my own code) or I’ll throw my security camera feed and YouTube on that one to have visible out of the corner of my eye.
If I am…
…gaming, I run the game on me monitor and something like a Wiki for said game on the other.
…doing music I have the DAW on the big screen and everything else on the other.
…working I have my focus point (CLI, IDE, SQL Dev, etc) on the small screen and all the noise (e-mail, chat, browsers, etc) on the big screen. Small screen is better for focus.
I’m a video editor with two 27” monitors. One landscape the other portrait. I used to use both monitors for premiere but found moving the mouse around that much annoying so I condensed all my panels into one monitor and use the portrait one for notes and communication. I feel like I could go back to a single monitor system in the future but I like having two
