Dual Monitor must-haves/Dual Monitor General

I recently pulled out my moms old monitor and hooked it up to my PC. I'm loving the artwork and wallpapers I have scroll by, but aside from multiple wallpapers, what other must-haves must I have for this setup? I never really utilized anything but wallpaper apps and some desktop widgets. Should I have my temps and etc on the second monitor, or should there be something else you'd recommend?

If you have no apps or etc to share, share pics of your dual setup and stories/preferences, or whatever comes to mind.

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on my secondary monitor I usually leave something to track cpu/ram usage, sometimes temperatures, music players, videos, movies

Always have discord and facebook messenger from windows 10 store on second monitor. And usually always a news stream or some sort of background video.

>dual monitor

I used to be like you Op. Believing that dual monitors will boost my productivity.
Little did I know at that time that it's just a low-res meme.

You need to get a 32" ips 4k monitor and never look back.

LG has one for

This man is a true genius and the most valuable Google engineer. He's like a God at Google and not even the CEO would go against him. He literally made Google what it is today and wrote/worked-on all of their most important software stacks. He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Now, notice something interesting:

He doesn't have two, three or four monitors and he doesn't have some gigantic TV screen that kills your focus and distracts him from everything important.

He's not distracted by having a phone out on his desk, because he doesn't use such technology as a lifeline like consumerist millennial do who'd literally die without their phone.

He doesn't have some bullshit meme mech keyboard with some special switches that were forged by elves in Japan from katana-grade steel and lights that emit perfect sRGB colors.

He doesn't have some tricked out text editor with million different features and colors.

He doesn't run some super-autistic Linux distro like Arch that demands you babysit it all the time.

He doesn't have some DE with customized CSS US that you usually see in tons of threads on here.

He didn't even change the default theme, colors or the default background.

He can afford all that shit, yet he doesn't waste his time on it. Instead, he writes 100x better code than you and is 1,000,000x more accomplished than you'll ever be. And he's infinitely smarter than you'll ever be.

So quit falling for fucking memes and quit craving all the latest bullshit that gets posted on here in these cancerous consumerist "generals" threads. Mark my words, and this is coming from a professional: there's nothing more pathetic than consumers who think having multi-monitor setups makes them productive.

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One monitor is good when you're an actual professional.

Four monitors is good when I'm a fresh graduate teaching myself iOS, with xcode on one, swift docs / google on another, and my tutorial on the third. My fourth can be occupied by a show or music or nothing

>what's a window

>My fourth can be occupied by a show or music or nothing
dat ADHD

Honestly I made the setup sound more retarded that it is. I have a desktop with two monitors. I have a macbook with one external monitor. They're just all setup like one big machine. Point being there's other uses to computers that just writing code

It can be handy with media editing. I use mine a lot with GIMP, Shotcut, OBS, Audacity, and Paint. Sometimes it's handy to have HWiNFO and task manager open all the time but I start to obsess on those numbers while I'm trying to focus on something else so I try to avoid having those open. I also occasionally leave the Spotify window or have YouTube running while shitposting. It's pretty useful running a VM in VirtualBox too but I don't have a real use for a VM unless I'm dicking around and experimenting.

Oh yeah, it helps having task manager open all the time with sort by cpu usage to find gremlins as well. My paranoia flares up sometimes when I notice abnormal cpu usage so I keep it open to monitor background programs constantly

Used to have two. One for a project and one for references. But when I started using workspaces in XFCE the second became obsolete for everything apart from YouTube. So I sold it. 1 monitor is simpler and keeps you focused. I'll play music or a podcast in the background now.

I've had 2 monitors for nearly a decade and the only time I ever legit need my 2nd monitor on is if I'm masturbating and need to fit more porn on the screen.

On the bright side this means if my main monitor randomly dies I'll have a backup immediately available.

>if I'm masturbating and need to fit more porn on the screen
this is GOAT use for dual monitor. Plebs don't know the feels of multiporn jerkin.

I can imagine putting a bunch of gifs throughout your side window and porn in your main one so when you get bored from the porn, you can stare at like 11 really hot gifs to keep your boner up/get off.

sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/

This program is an abandoned buggy shit but only one I found that actually does what I want it to do, that is give me a normally functioning and configurable taskbar on the second monitor.
Is there another one that does exactly that, isn't abandoned piece of shit, is open sores and supports windows 7?

When I have to do CAD or PCB design at school, I use 1 or 2 hp s140u usb monitors with my laptop. Not super usable on a daily basis but a godsend when it's needed. Handy for: having a schematic open while laying out a circuit board, looking at multiple parts while doing CAD work, running a debugger and coding at the same time for embedded development, keeping a textbook PDF and Matlab open at the same time. My main machine is a laptop with a 900p display. If I had more screen real estate, the extra displays might not be as useful. There are also more novel uses for it - run a VM with an extra keyboard/mouse on a secondary display and it's like you have a second, shittier computer.

Dual monitor setups are a fucking meme and only kids need it. If you want more space, get an Ultrawide monitor. Learn something about DE workspaces. Even fucking i3 has them.

Nah, dual monitors are really useful.

Let me give few examples.
Case 1: on one monitor you have rawtherape, and on the second one the gimp. You don't have to switch between one and another all the time.
Case 2: on one monitor you have docs, on the second one IDE of your choice.
Case 3: on one monitor you have call with a client, while another one has all notes, presentations, resolved tickets, and things like that
Etc etc etc. Of course you can use one monitor but almost all the tasks will take you a bit more time - like for example copy and pasting tickets description from jira to raport, or quoting papers.

I tried many setups in my life and in my humble opinion the best one for me is dual monitors with multiple workspaces or i3wm on laptop.