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 spend a lot of time in zoom meetings. One monitor is the zoom sesh, one is the excel file or whatever I’m working on or reading data off of or taking notes on, third is on rotation but frequently a chat or email window so I can be reaching out to give info or ask for info based on what I’m hearing in the videoconference.
Having only two monitors would be ok, slightly less efficient to be moving the working files and communication apps around. One monitor would be very inefficient, I wouldn’t be able to to keep the videoconf content up while working to react to it.
I’m not a programmer, in case you couldn’t tell.