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 ]

  • herrcaptain
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    5 months ago

    Really, the more monitors the better as far as I’m concerned. For my home desktop I just have an ultra widescreen and it’s basically fine for most stuff as I functionally treat it like two monitors when doing anything outside of a game - I’d still love a second though, especially for while gaming as I miss having a wiki or whatever up in view.

    For work we provide everyone with a laptop and two monitors, so that’s three screens. Even the least technical of our staff love it and would hate to go back to having less screens. It’s so helpful having multiple websites/spreadsheets/whatever open at once when working on anything involving comparing information.