I went from 3 to 2, as I went from 2x24@1080p + 1x34@1440p to 2x32@4k. I the jump to 4k with such large screens meant I have a massive more amount of usable screen real estate especially as I do not use any scaling on the screens, although I do marginally increase the font size. I can manage six windows per screen all neatly tiled as long as its not my IDE, that I need a good 2/3rd of the screen to actually be useful for me.
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway. I particularly like how the virtual desktops work on Sway as I have separate virtual desktops per screen, makes them actually useful for me. Typically I have two per screen, IDE/Terminal and Discord/Signal/Music, Multiple Browser windows and Email/Teams/Office.
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway.
“I use sway BTW” 😉
At least it’s not on arch 😞
Sway on Arch master race?
Hyprland on NixOS gang
Sway on ubuntu, as it’s my work machine. I will switch eventually when I replace the PC with a new one
I’m on Ubuntu because work too. I really hope nobody gets the idea to do really silly things like enforce Gnome or something. Wouldn’t put it past them.
I have a portable monitor just in case and I bust it out if there’s no monitor for me to plug in.
Build/test code on one screen
Write code on another screen
Attend bullshit waste of my fucking time meeting on 3rd screen
Wheres your monitor for email and IM?
I only have 3 you jerk
I ended up buying a portable 15" monitor so that when I’m forced to work on laptop, I have the option to use dual display. Basically the same size as a large tablet.
I have a nice widescreen monitor standing unused at my desk and I work sitting cross legged in my armchair with a laptop on my lap.
And the one screen is also smaller unless you get a desktop replacement laptop with an 18’ screen.
a desktop replacement laptop with an 18’ screen.
I don’t have the space for a laptop like that!
Nothing like placing the SUN directly on your lap! Raw dawg it! 🤣
I must be lucky because I have a laptop + 2 24" 4K monitors setup and it turns out it is too much for me. Now I just use my laptop in clamshell mode with one horizontal monitor in landscape and the other portrait, but I wonder if won’t sell one those and keep the vertical one aside my open laptop.
“Clamshell mode”. That’s cool. I’m stealing that.
TBH I didn’t invent it. I think it’s the way Apple refers to a closed Mac laptop since the clamshell iBook. And since I’m not a native English speaker I usually find the expression easier to use.
“I need multiple monitors to see all my content!” -> dead giveaway you’ve never used a window manager with virtual desktops or window grouping.
Or that you’re a streamer.
None of those things help you see more stuff at one time… I’ll take physical screen real-estate over virtual screen real-estate any day of the week.
I recently downsized from 2 to 1. NGL, I miss the second in some circumstances, but I also don’t miss the inclination to have YouTube or Netflix constantly open if I’m not using the second for anything else.
Imagine me working on a 6.8" phone and a bluetooth keyboard…
It’s enough for writing documentation, and for a while I was top notch at writing my docs at my underpaid job, but then I went through multiple burnout, while my sleep progressively got worse.
Hopefully they won’t extend my contract after November, so I can finally sleep when I want, and not when people that feed their chickens at 5:00AM do.
Just got a 32" 4k OLED and can’t work from a laptop anymore.
This was never not the case for me.
In CRT era there was just no contest, the resolution (the amount of data displayed) alone was worlds apart. Yet I only ever had one CRT connected at a time.
Once the LCDs became minimally viable for me I just never disconnected the previous LCD when upgrading/buying another one (I’ve always been a “main screen + support screens” sort of operator).
Finally LCDs and OLEDs became just too big (and tiling much much better) to have “too many” monitors.
Yet there are times when I wish I had a mini monitor (one of those candy bar screens where I would just have Signal or something, about 480×1920 pixels, they are cheap but I then remember how silly the need is and don’t want to further consumerism for needles thighs).I remember when one crt was like 800x600 and another 1280x1024. Worlds apart.
Another time, another battle.
Those Trinitron tubes were beautiful
I don’t know if I would want to do it all the time, but I have come to appreciate the workflow when using a single monitor. I feel like I’m more focused.
Ikr. Though it’s largely dependent on the kind of work you’re doing, I find that for myself a 1 monitor setup is sufficient.
I feel like I was moving documents around too much when I had multiple. Or that it would make me lazy cause I didn’t bother closing something I was finished with.
That being said — widescreens are wear it’s at.
me too, thx
