Are you in a garage
My setup is in an old garden shed I’ve converted to my tech studio.
I added insulation, radiant barriers, lighting, air conditioning, and have three 3d printers, a laser cutter, and a workstation for my laptop with a wide-screen monitor along 2 sides, and a workbench and tool wall on the third.
Whole conversion probably cost about 1200 in materials, and it’s amazing.
What goes on the fourth monitor?
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twitch chat
Yep, chat/slack and email too.
I feel a little cramped for space with 4 monitors these days. 6 is actually my preferred setup, but I don’t have the desk space for it.
I find 2 per PC is my useful limit. Which means my current 5 isn’t quite enough. Monitor arms are always a challenge at that scale, though.
I agree, two is probably the productive limit as long as you only have one mouse cursor. But I just got a dual screen laptop with touch on both. I can easily slip between a soure document, destination document and have a web page or other tool open for research it’s kind of classy.
As a software dev, i like having 3. Gives me space to see
- console output and debug info on the left
- my code editor in the center
- and my browser on the right
Or having multiple vscode windows and a browser
I also move windows around using the keyboard (
win + left / right), and the task switcher (alt + tab)My current setup has 6, but that’s across 3 PCs and a devkit.
