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 ]

  • fine_sandy_bottom
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    9 months ago

    Yeah this is me. I love this set up.

    I dabble in development but not all day. I’m an accountant. My laptop monitor is usually music, chats, video calls. The other two are just whatever I’m working on emails, spreadsheets, browser based applications. I would absolutely miss having the third monitor.

    Presently my daily driver is a Lenovo t490s. The laptop monitor is HD but I don’t think it can support more than 1920 on the monitors on the dock. I’d love to move up to all HD one day. That would be amazing. I’m near sighted so smaller-than-usual text is quite comfortable. having HD would give me so much more usable space within my field of view.