I am technically, but I almost never turn on my second (vertical) monitor. Usually when I have my main set to a different source and I want something from my desktop PC on the other monitor.
I'm sort of that. I've got two landscape and one portrait monitor, the portrait one is good for browsing websites like this one where there's a lot of vertical text. I actually find myself preferring the landscape ones for coding since my IDE has a lot of stuff in sidebars and also some of the lines of text are very long.
I’m a mix between chaotic neutral and lawful neutral. I have a vertical monitor on my left which is mainly for slack + documents. Center screen for code and what ever I’m focused on and laptop screen on the right for calendar, email, other not in focus things.
I’m chaotic neutral too but I don’t code on the diagonal monitor. I only have it diagonal because my neck hurts looking at the side screen if I have them both horizontal lol
Don’t take the chart seriously. Pretty much all of these setups are good for their uses and are done by someobdy, even certain forms of “chaotic evil”.
Even at thrift stores it’s usually not too hard to find a pair with matching size and resolution which are the two big considerations. Getting screens with identical pixel sizes makes all the difference.
And then you find out you have that dependency but your linker decides to not take it and then you have it but a slightly other version and you decide it’s not worth it
I guess I’m chaotic neutral. I’ve never had enough money to buy two of the same monitor. All of my stuff is stuff I got either for free from school or for extremely cheap.
A neat trick I learned recently. The vertical /smaller/secondary monitor should go on different sides for different people. Hold a finger close to your face and close one eye and then the other. Whichever eye more closely matches the both-eye image is your dominant eye and is where your secondary monitor should go.
Neutral good originally, but I find lawful evil to be faaaaarrr better. Tilting my head up or down for extended periods feels a lot better than turning left or right
Lawful evil with two separate sized monitors is also really nice for those who like to game with a video on the second screen. Big screen for the game, small for the video/stream, and vertical order is up to preference.
I use a 42" 4K monitor. Same working area as 4 x 21" 1920x1080 screens but more flexible. Been doing so for ~10 years. When my old 39" 4K monitor broke I used 2 x 24 inch monitors + laptop screen for a while but I ended up buying another big monitor instead, it’s just so convenient.
4k is clutch, I have this, tiled windows, and universal zoom enabled so I can zoom on one thing and the 4k means it’s perfectly legible, the zoom out for the full view
Used to be a chaotic neutral, but realised that a full screen video doesn’t work well with a display in portrait orientation (and even if I have a laptop below, it’s too small). Neutral good right now with two 27"s; might add a 34" later on.
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