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 ]
3 screens are ideal for me:
Primary
Secondary screen to be able to look at 2 windows (that are maximized) side by side with the primary screen
3rd screen for static apps that are always open like email, slack, music, etc.
Having said that, getting a widescreen monitor has helped reduce my desk space requirements a lot. So now I only have 1 widescreen, and my laptop acting as the 3rd screen.
How big of an ultrawide do you have? I’ve currently got two 27” monitors but I’d like to get one ultrawide to replace these two and then get (in the future) another to go above the ultrawide.
I "only" have a 34", but it's enough to fit 2 windows side by side without sacrificing their layouts. It also has thunderbolt so it acts as a dock as well and I no longer need to use my thunderbolt dock. I only have one thunderbolt cable that runs between my laptop and the monitor, and it supplies power, usb connectivity (for my webcam), and even audio connectivity (headphone port).