I do a lot of video editing. 3 monitors all the same size. Right is main edited output. Center is all my editing tools. Left is file management, chat, stock footage, etc.
I’m a 3 monitor person as well. 34" ultrawide as my main with two 24" widescreens side-to-side immediately above it. I use it for work and personal use.
Ultrawide has my main programs for work: internet browsers and job specific programs get about 60% of the real estate on the left, while pdf’s, and other less essential programs go to the right 40% of the screen.
The top left monitor gets Teams, Excel docs, or auxiliary browsers.
Top right gets email and media (YouTube, Spotify, etc) or any overfill if I’m dealing with a particularly cluttered job.
For personal, ultrawide is obviously used for games, movies, etc, while top left has task manager, MSI Afterburner, and Throttlestop (I run a laptop). And the top right has Discord.
I have three monitors. Middle is an ultra wide with the tests and another window of stuff (the app, data, etc). Right is a 1080 with docs. Left is a 1080 with the code in question.
I use two monitors: one in landscape orientation and the other vertical. I usually keep console windows in the vertical one and that’s where I write code. Typically its code editing on the left side and a few console windows with compiler/server output on the right. Landscape gets firefox web UI: current app, time clock or notes window.
So that’s two workspaces. I have additional monitor-level workspaces I can flip to: #3 for chrome (google products), #4 for signal/thunderbird, #5 for keepassxc, #6 for an additional set of console windows for a second project, or for other things like system upgrades and etc.
I run pretty much the same workspaces on my laptop with only one monitor, the main difference is having to flip back and forth more. Its a little more mental overhead. On the dual monitor rig I like the vertical orientation for my code window, I can see 2x the amount of code at once.
Overall I’d say the productivity boost from multiple monitors is low to mid. Its nice to have but I can still get work done on a laptop screen. That said I do most of my work on the dual setup.
Been doing it for years as a sysadmin. Great for documentation and multiple terminal windows. Interrupting programs (email, messengers) on the small screen so they are easy to review but out of direct line of sight.
Small screen makes it easy to screen share with others. They can seen the whole thing at a reasonable size.
3 monitors here, also as a Sysadmin. One for a browser window and tickets, one for side apps like password managers/comms/music/document handling/whatever, and the last is for all the remote desktop-ing I do into various machines throughout the environment.
Corporates are much more likely to self host such stuff over a startup. Other than office, corporates I’ve been involved with hate Saas and pay per seat stuff as they’re usually too large to justify it for everyone, self host is easier and put it on internal VPN.
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