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 ]

  • @MrVilliamEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    I operate a ZLD plant processing blowdown for a combined cycle power plant. I have two computers at my desk. The left computer is for email, data entry, training, and monitoring a few power block and BOP things via PI; this is with two monitors, one above the other. The right computer is for operating the plant directly and monitoring native trends; this is with four monitors, 2x2.

    I’d say I don’t need more than this, but I would feel some pain if I had fewer. I would love to have another monitor or two to display camera feeds, but my plant never figured out how to get the cameras set up so we just climb ladders to look into sight glass windows once in a while. Or I might be the only one who actually bothers with that lol. Really the 4 monitor rig could and probably should be replaced by a big 4k screen if the software supports windowed instances instead of full screen like we have been running. It wouldn’t surprise me if this POS program can’t do that though.