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.
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?
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.
Hyprland on NixOS gang
me too, thx
I use three monitors and could use a fourth one (ultra wide) for some specific tasks, meanwhile my colleague that does the same job is working from a 13" laptop screen sitting on a cushion at her coffee table…
Luckily we have portable monitors now for when you’re away from your dock
I specifically trained myself away from it when I went to working remote. I don’t want to be tied to my desk when I could spend my day at the park, beach, coffee shop, bar, on a boat, or Disneyland and still get work done.
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I could go from 3 to 2, but no way in hell I’m going back to a 14" eye destroyer. Not when generic 24" monitors are cheap and have adequate refresh rates for most tasks.
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.
A second monitor is really useful for sticking post-it notes to though.
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.
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’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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.
Just got a 32" 4k OLED and can’t work from a laptop anymore.
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
