What do people use multiple monitors for?

what do people use multiple monitors for?

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Mostly a personal thing, but everybody should be able to find it out once they've tried.
I have one vertical and one horizontal, which is good for watching a video and reading a thread, or having a game and a chat window open at the same time, or having many file explorer windows. A big plus of vertical is that you can look at porn or whatever without black bars

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better hacking

it is humanly impossible to read a thread and watch a video together
you cant play games and read chat messages simultaneously
you also cant read through many file explorer windows at once, only one line at a time
you are full of shit

When working
3 screen, right for mailbox, task list, monitoring, mid for ide and result, left for documentation and testing when wirking on web stuff. I can do without, but it's confortable.
When gaming, 2 screen, left for internet browsing, (some game are more palyable with a wkki open also), right for the game

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We can do all this shit on one screen but multiple is just more confortable

Nothing you can't do with multiple workspaces.

let me guess. you use Windows?

The idea is to not have to open them, not to be a dual brained chameleon who monitors literally everything going on.
It's increasingly obvious that you have no clue how it works; don't knock it before you try it.

Front-end development. My editor is on my right screen and my browser is on the left. I have hot-reloading set up so any changes are instantaneous. Feels nice

I guess I'm not a human then because I can easily do all of those.
Obviously you can't do it at the exact same time but like said it's a lot faster to have both open and easily switch between them by using your eyes.

What the point ? All os today have multiple workspace, thats not the subject, it resolve nothing

t. pajeet multi monitor brainlet

I switched from dual 1080p to a single 4k and don't miss my old monitors much.

>buy dual monitor to play game on one and watch youtube on the other
>Windows 10 DWM.exe can't into different refresh rates (144Hz on gaming monitor and 60Hz on second monitor)
>game stutters like crazy when watching youtube on the second monitor because refresh rate clashes

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I've never experienced this with my setup. Maybe you've opted out of some updates? I've heard that can be an issue for people who disabled them or run pirated Windows.

I use one for porn, one for a news station, one for podcasts and one for whatever else im doing.

How many times/how frequently do you have to switch between them? Breaks the flow and your concentration. Unless of course, you aren't concentrating on anything...

Photoshop windows (layers, history, navigator), so I have more space for the actual image on the main screen.
I switch it off when I don't have photoshop open though.

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I use my horizontal one for programming, usually 2-3 files side-by-side. The vertical one is good to split between documentation and a terminal, IRC client, etc.

It's a lot easier to do this on multiple screens. That's the point, retard.

So I feel more like Jesus the Destroy of Worlds, not a weak human bean

Basically 2 modes:
- email / documents / notes on one, the actual workspace on the other.
- if its a fairly light task like QA or just reviewing over some stuff then work on one screen, then something streaming from Netflix on the other.

bullshit i check discord after every death

QA Testing / Development

>watching a video and reading a thread

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u will understand if you get into coding

works on my triple monitor setup, and only one of them is high frequency

There is a huge difference between accessing a window/screen that's already open at your side or having to navigate to it no matter how efficient your single screen workspace is.

This is like using several papers on a desk. Laying them spread on a huge desk will alway be better than shuffling through them and only being able to look at one at a time.

To fight for the title biggest homo on earth.

I'm devops engineer, so one is for terminal, one browser, one some text editor. Aside from that I use multiple desktops for different tasks. Some programs are configured to start on specific desktop, screen and specific size.
I hate alt and tabbing.

at work - testing software and QA shit
at home - porn, porn, photoshop, watching movies and chinese cartoons

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>what do people use multiple monitors for?
multiple eyes

I use it for autism, mostly
even if I'm not doing anything productive with them at all it makes me feel less claustrophobic

dwarf therapist on the left
dwarf fortress in the middle
chromium with dfwiki on the right

Technet article on the right hand monitor, command prompt on the left.

RMS uses a T60 laptop screen
if that is enough for him, a single 1080p monitor is enough for Jow Forums

I used to use multiple monitors but then I embraced the single monitor and multiple workspace setup. No window managers, just 1 program per workspace. I'm getting very into reducing cognitive load and mental decision count in my workflow. I find it makes me more productive when I focus on one thing at once.

>you cant play games and read chat messages simultaneously
what is peripheral vision?
I can navigate my game while glancing over at chat
maybe not aim and shoot at people but anything else is fine

why have I never thought of that?

One for IDE, second for browser, third for your app gui testing, fourth for logs.

This, only artfags legitimately need more than one monitor.

Writing research papers. I can have sources pulled up on one screen and on the other have my manuscript. It is quite helpful.

5th to monitor onions levels

To see more stuff at the same time.

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I can't believe how old that setup is, and how old I am. I first saw this back when a G4 was actually an acceptable main and Intel Macs were just rumours on the horizon.

This, bigtime.

monitor 1: assignment
monitor 2: code for assignment
monitor 3: google because i messed something up again

It makes more intuitive sense for human beings to task switch by changing physical location of where you're looking.

Have you ever had to compare 2 documents and switch rapidly between the 2? It's way better having them side by side on the desk or on a monitor each. If you've ever had to do it with a single e-reader or tablet or single monitor you'll know how annoying it is.

Each time you alt-tab you lose context of where you are and have to regain where things yes I know it only takes a split second but its still there, whereas if its in your peripheral vision your unconscious brain is doing that in the background already. It's not a problem its just extra effort and draining or slightly tedious.

I mean today at work I had fullscreen terminal with tmux on one screen, website with documentation on the other, and I was also alt-tabbing a chat conversation of what I was currently debugging in a 3rd window. Only being able to see 2 at once was annoying and tedious.