No.110980
I ave found tat to be te case too. Multiple monitors make you feel more productive but wat you gain in screen space you lose by aving to manage windows across monitors and by no longer being able to keep your entire screen space in your field of view. You go back to a single monitor setup and it's not actually all tat bad.
No.110981
How would workspaces factor into this? I use a single monitor but use different workspaces and its quite nice. I am still able todo multiple things at once and can switch back to my main focus
No.110983
>>110981I've never managed to get workspaces into my workflow. How do you go about it?
No.110986
i NEVER use workspaces
No.110988
>>110983I have it on a hotkey combo, Super + <Number>. This allows me to quickly switch between them. I usually have a browser on my first workspace, and the second is the main content, for example. It's useful for quickly looking up things when I'm working on something. The third and beyond I use for other stuff like communication applications, tools like easyeffects or a music player
No.110989
I like to have documentation open on the second monitor. Or maybe the application running that I'm working on. When I make music I have my sample browser and metering on the second screen. I think I'm doing better with two.
No.110999
>>110980>Multiple monitors make you feel more productive but wat you gain in screen space you lose by aving to manage windows across monitors and by no longer being able to keep your entire screen space in your field of view.If you're constantly going back and forth between monitors, then you're using multi-monitors wrong. For example, having a documentation page on one screen and something that you're working on in the main screen is a case where multiple monitors is
objectively better than a single monitor. It is infinitely more convenient to be able to simply turn your head, read, and go back to your work on your main monitor than it is to cycle between windows, or have multiple windows open at once, on a single screen.
No.111004
I thought this was going to be about ultrawide vs. dual, but it sounds like it's just an issue with dedicating one monitor to social stuff.
>>110999Sometimes it's better to do that on a single, bigger monitor. If you've got a terminal and documentation open, neither needs a lot of horizontal space, so putting them side-by-side on a 1440 monitor gives you more usable space than splitting them between two 1080 monitors. That is pretty niche, though, and you could always flip your monitors if that's your main use-case.
No.111013
There's probably a linux distro that's gotten the workspace concept down well enough that instead of looking somewhere else you can train yourself to change the screen space with a keybind.
Linux Mint's Ctrl+Alt+Up or Ubuntu's Meta key is pretty good. I'd like something a bit keybound
No.111432
>>110999>If you're constantly going back and forth between monitors, then you're using multi-monitors wrongMaybe I'm using them wrong at home but correctly at the place of empl_yment then. Over there I have it all set up nice so my code windows are in the middle, my chat and email are on the left where I can cover them up with more code windows or internet browser, my git client is always on the right, and so on.
But at home I don't have a set pattern. Everything's on every screen.
No.111433
>>111004>Sometimes it's better to do that on a single, bigger monitor.I'm still not really convinced of this. Unless you're using a program that breaks up your display into multiple display adapters you will eventually run into issues with full screen applications that monopolize your entire screen.
No.111437
The biggest appeal of 2 monitors is that you can set 1 in portrait orientation for viewing documents. I suppose you *could* get the same effect with a single sufficiently large monitor, but it'd be less cost and space efficient compared to having 2 monitors in different orientations.
No.111444
I've been using two 1080p 23 in monitors for the longest time and feel like I finally need to upgrade, but 2 of anything larger just seems like it would take up too much space and require too much head movement.
No.111447
>>111445>I still feel like my new wide monitor, which is 3440 x 1440, has enough space on it when I'm heavily multitasking and have a bunch of windows.Err, DOESN'T have enough space
No.111457
>>111433I never fullscreen anything when I'm working. Chats, email, spreadsheets, code, old ass webapps; none of them need more than half the screen at most. Even when slacking it's better to put a video in the corner and work around it so you can keep everything close to your point of focus at all times.
>>111445The trick is to size everything differently and arrange them in ways so that there's always a small piece of each window that's peeking out so you can activate it in-line.
No.111459
Never black bar, always streeeeetch
No.129633
>>110979I used to have around 24 monitors for work a while ago so at home I've always just liked having one
No.129655
I only use one monitor. I tried two but the second was just distracting and I really don't have a need for two monitors.
No.129815
>>110979On my side monitor, half is my music player and half is whatever else: chat, music from youtube, etc.