people act like they cannot live w/o multi-monitor setup. they act like it's totally normal to have 3 monitors (not even just 2). linux users do this also and linux literally has virtual desktops built in.

people have lost the plot.

>i need 3 monitors.
>and i keep 15+ tabs open in my browser at all times
>this monitor is just for my Audacity where i record my podcast

the illusion of productivity

unless you are monitoring something actually important you're just having a laugh (industrial monitoring, network monitoring, stock market, etc).

>>105595691 (OP)
monitoring ur mom, can't fit on one screen

Dual monitors make a significant difference in comfort, productivity, and not having that claustrophobic feeling. More than that is almost always pointless unless you have a very specific use case.

>tfw 6 monitors on my workstation
>tfw comfy
I like my monitors and trackball. I'm never giving them up. Sorry.

>>105595691 (OP)
These kinds of setups are made obsolete by 8K TVs

I NEED this yes.

I have a second monitor which I barely look at, it's where I have streams open and stuff I'm barely paying attention to.

>>105595761
>Dual monitors make a significant difference in comfort, productivity
keep telling yourself that

>and not having that claustrophobic feeling
what a weird psychological issue...''

>>105595812
retarded

>>105595815
>a second monitor which I barely look at
the truth emerges

>>105595779
No they're not. Your ultrawide consumer shit television can't compare to having multiple monitors for different purposes. I have high refresh rate 4k monitors stacked one on top of the other in the middle. I have 1080p monitor on the right rotated in portrait for reading documentation. I have two 21-inch CRTs on the left in stacked configuration for applications that do not work well on modern LCDs. I have a consumer television at the 6th monitor for verifying things look okay on a shitty consumer set which most of the clients I produce for will watch the content I edit on.

Options are nice. I like being able to play old games or watch pre-HD era content on the monitors intended for it. I like seeing the result of editing and upscaling such content on a modern monitor in real time. I like being able to verify I've properly edited SDR master into HDR re-master. I like having the option of checking things function correctly on 144hz vs 60hz without fucking around with constantly reconfiguration of things.

All of that doesn't even begin to cover cases where I have something like man pages open on one monitor, working on another and outputting the result to a third. Or checking stuff like webpages I'm making on various resolutions and types of monitors. Being a poorfag isn't an excuse either. Most of the monitors on my desk were ones I got for free excluding the ones I dropped a lot of coin on in the middle. The CRTs are left overs I've been using for 25+ years now or ones I picked up from people that were going to throw them in the dumpster when consumer whores all updated to LCDs. I have a bunch in storage ready to go should any of these ever shit the bed. But I try to re-cap them often and keep them going since the 21-inch ones I'm currently using are very nice.

>>105595831
>keep telling yourself that
Nobody who's done actual work on a computer thinks a second screen is useless.

I have been on a single monitor for my entire internet career. Never needed more. What do you need two screens for? Just alt+tab.

>>105595691 (OP)
Fuck you OP you are a retarded faggot. I NEED multiple monitors so I can switch between watching stuff, coding on my projects, and gayming.

If a single tiny monitor doesn't make you feel crammed and cluttered then you probably just play on social media and don't actually use your machine the way it's supposed to be used.

>>105595812
this entire image better be bait or you better have got it from elsewhere

>>105596698
>you probably just play on social media and don't actually use your machine the way it's supposed to be used.
heh
>Some terrible video game
>MSM propaganda about a fake war streamed directly from google
>MSM propaganda is coming in at 240p
>System monitor with CPU+GPU pegged due to crappy video game and youtube running
>22.6GB of RAM somehow being used by this shit
>Using wireless when there are two Ethernet ports
>He only has one SSD and one HDD
>Using a GUI for git
>Refuses to close MSM propaganda for 10 seconds to update his Firefox installation
>Windows
>Electron IDE
>Nvidia GPU

I suspected the average person on /g/ was like this today. Thanks for confirming.

>>105595691 (OP)
I don't NEED multiple monitors, but it is comfier than one screen.

>>105595691 (OP)
who are you even talking to

>>105596698
>the dedicated 240p propaganda corner

>>105596961
me. we were having a conversation in IRC and decided to move it here.

>>105596948
>Some terrible video game
Squad is a good game.
>MSM propaganda about a fake war streamed directly from google
>MSM propaganda is coming in at 240p
I'm switching between different channels and keeping up on the war. You and >>105596972
wouldn't have said this if I had some leftist retard like Hasan streaming in the corner at 240p because I'm listening in the background.
>System monitor with CPU+GPU pegged due to crappy video game and youtube running
>22.6GB of RAM somehow being used by this shit
Multiple Firefox tabs, multiple IDE instances, Docker up, and Squad running is more than enough of an explanation for 22gb of RAM, how do you not understand that.
>Using wireless when there are two Ethernet ports
Those are hyperV not plugged in ports. If you did big boy development and testing you might have noticed the vEthernet.

>He only has one SSD and one HDD
>Using a GUI for git
>Refuses to close MSM propaganda for 10 seconds to update his Firefox installation
>Windows
>Electron IDE
>Nvidia GPU

>>105597154
>big boy development
>doesn't own an ethernet card
>running Windows
>youtube premium
lol
>Docker
lmao
>Multiple firefox tabs
>four tabs
ROFL
>Multiple IDE instances
>They're electron applications
ROFLMAO
>posting pepe in 2025
wew

Yeah this explains how this board went full retard since the last time I visited. Mr. Big Boy developer over here with his MSM propaganda in 240p. Who thinks I wouldn't be making fun of him if he was watching the Commie News Network coverage of the fake kike war instead of the Faux News coverage of the fake kike war.

You are the reason we've collectively fucked. Let me guess. Mr. Big Boy Developer is developing webapps for big tech. That javascript sure is hard. Need three browser engines running at the same time to debug it.

My coworkers who probably make at least 200k/year don’t know how to alt+tab so having a second screen for any moderately intermediate timed tasks actually does speed up their work.

>>105595691 (OP)
I like having a vertical monitor for manga/doujins/comics but I wouldn't want my second monitor to be vertical, ergo, three monitors.

IDE on the middle, console output on the left, GUI on the right.

Imagine being a single monitor poorfag lmao

>>105595691 (OP)
i have a second monitor and its turned off until i need it for projects/work. you are telling the truth about the current retards barley 18 faggots saying they need a second monitor for their useless shit like discord/streams/videos whatever...

>>105597154
>Multiple Firefox tabs
there's 4 tabs one of them looks like a pdf

>>105596948
you forgot to mention that he paid for youtube premium

>>105595691 (OP)
His brain is too small to use more than one window at a time. He can't even comprehend it.

>>105599751
wtf is wrong with her forearms

>>105595691 (OP)
It's a minmal setup really. I want to add another portrait monitor on the right, I would start having issues with my mic being in the way then.

>>105596600
what kind of work do you do?

why are single monitor fags such insufferable busybodies? who wants to alt+tab all day

Multi-monitor setups are for braindead faggots.

Because these days you can get a large 4k monitor for cheaper that replaces and is objectively better than most multi-monitor setups.

>>105595812
>dude weed
an hero

>>105595691 (OP)
2 is comfy although i wouldnt mind have a third probably a vertical one to keep a 4chan thread on or something. virtual desktop sucks its nicer to just move your mouse to another screen than to switch your whole desktop on one screen its much more seemless

>>105595777
based how do you have them set up?

>>105595812
this is a mental illness

>>105600075
is this how niggas without ocd live

>>105600081
Tripfaggotry is mental illness.

>>105595691 (OP)
I have two at home. If I’m feeling frisky I’ll add my iPad Pro and use it as an external screen. At work, we’re required to use 5. Two big ones, two medium ones and a giant television monitor on top. I work in cybersecurity so, it’s essential to have that many.

I have three monitors; I work from home and I found it to be most effecient. One main one for work, another for primarily reference materials while working, and the final for email and messaging services so I can quickly interact with team mates.

>>105599494
>IDE on the middle, console output on the left, GUI on the right.
Close enough, yeah. Multiple editors with multiple files open on two monitors, consoles where I'm running the various component applications on the third (I do a fair amount of client/server stuff, so there's usually at least two components). If there's a desktop GUI or web interface involved that goes on the next virtual desktop.

As for virtual desktops: I've got several in use at all times. For every project I work on I have a multiple screen "workbench" with the various windows described above. If I put it down to work on something else, I'll just create a fresh virtual desktop to clutter all 3 screens on. More than 3 monitors is where it gets a bit questionable because you'll reach the limit of what you can fit in your field of view. Also this is where you start to need some sort of hotkey to fast-forward the mouse cursor to the next monitor over because it'll take you ages to move it there in a conventional manner.

>>105595691 (OP)
i need to watch my friends screen while I have a screen to myself while we desktop share to eachother? and no workspace switching solution is optimal for this.

>>105595691 (OP)
At home I use linux and I have no need for a second screen because tiling window managers use screen space well.

For work I have to use windows 11 and I'm not allowed in install custom software onto it. Working with a single screen on windows is awful. Virtual desktops and snapping windows are not enough.