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 ]
I'm a software engineer. I have an ultrawide for my personal stuff (a odyssey g9) , for productivity it functions as 2 27in displays side by side, usually youtube/twitch and whatever task I should be doing. When I game the wide aspect ratio is nice. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, but it is nice.
Above the ultrawide I have 2 27in for work. kinda hard to say what they usually have open but heres a handful of scenarios:
but really any combination of 2 tasks (usually one being monitored or referenced and one being worked on). I have been thinking about getting another vertical monitor exclusively for chat. Having chat already open and responding breaks my concentration a lot less than having to pull up the chat over top of whatever I was doing. It's definitely diminishing returns
Some other display topologies I see used: