I have a nice widescreen monitor standing unused at my desk and I work sitting cross legged in my armchair with a laptop on my lap.
Virtual desktops are a lifesaver, 3 finger swipe on the trackpad to go to the next screen
I need to be able to see what I’m referencing while working
The constant swap between virtual desktops is a pain
However I do wish material shell (tiling) treated separate monitors as separate virtual desktops so I could swap left>right and up>down
Man, I've been running i3 at home for years and using Windows for work kills my efficiency so hard. Lemme have my billion virtual desktops and move tiles in half a second so I can stop dragging shit all over! I do use PowerToys to help a bit but it's just not the same when you're used to a kwyboard-centric workflow.
And when you have to have everything on the one small screen, outlook gets buried and you miss notifications
Working from home I only miss notifications because I'm making coffee
I just tested if it works on GNOME, did couple swipes trying until I realized I have disabled trackpad in bios >.>
Rip lol. I don't think it works in gnome, I almost put that in my comment lol. It works in mint, but I'm not even sure if it's in base ubuntu.
tiling window managers with multiple desktops is such a productivity boost and makes single screen work effortless. I don't think I'll ever use a traditional floating window os again
I had that and had to explain to the department why 6 monitors essentially (3 physical monitors with 2 virtual desktops on each) was not the same as 6 other monitors (2 physical monitors with 3 virtual desktops on each).
Ya know if a company is gonna have you work from home they should be paying for your whole office set up :| desk, chair, monitors etc. At least the materials you need.
For me it's the opposite, if they want me to come back into the office they should at least pay for some decent monitors at the workstations.
pay for some decent
ROFL my laptop at work was low-mid when it was built in 2017
My work gave me $1000 for office stuff to work from home. They also provided a KB/mouse, three 1080p 24" monitors, a UPS, brand new laptop, a dock for the laptop, cables, a headset, etc.
I already had my system set up for work from home including two 1080p displays, a 1440p display, mechanical keyboard, wireless mouse with charging mouse pad... Even a headset and KVM.
I spent the money on an additional battery for my homelab rack (which will extend the uptime of my firewall during a power outage.
I'm pretty happy with my setup, I combined everything, and decommissioned my oldest display, and bought myself a laptop stand, so when I'm on my PC (selected from the KVM), I have five displays, three wide, and two above. When I select my work laptop, the laptop screen becomes a sixth monitor, and the stand props it up to be one of the top displays, so I have a 3x2 grid of displays.
I'm usually fine with three for my personal use, but more are not unwelcome, at work I was pushing from three to four pretty consistently in the past few years.
Though, I find that having a 1920x1200 or 1440p display set up in portrait is usually pretty helpful for work. So I can see more of a page. I wouldn't recommend doing that with a 1080 display, since most sites that have a static width are optimized for screens that are at least 1280x768 (around 720p) and going down from 1280 px wide to 1080px wide, results in some horizontal scrolling.... Which is never fun.
Yeah my office paid for my new chair (old broke). Asked if I could have one of the Herman Miller's we all used at the office since no one was there anymore but they just bought me a new one lmao that was really cash money of them. The Embody is easily the best chair I've ever sat in, it's not even close.
You sure it's not 1000$ for equipment you have to give back if you leave? That's how it works for me
Well, if they want to come and unbolt an 80lb battery from my rack and take it away after I've gotten a few good years out of it, I'm okay with that. By that time I'll already be saving up for a replacement.
It's more likely that they would say "you owe us office equipment or the 1k", but again that's just if it works the same way it does where I work...
I could go from 3 to 2, but no way in hell I'm going back to a 14" eye destroyer. Not when generic 24" monitors are cheap and have adequate refresh rates for most tasks.
I use three monitors and could use a fourth one (ultra wide) for some specific tasks, meanwhile my colleague that does the same job is working from a 13" laptop screen sitting on a cushion at her coffee table...
Build/test code on one screen
Write code on another screen
Attend bullshit waste of my fucking time meeting on 3rd screen
Wheres your monitor for email and IM?
I only have 3 you jerk
I ended up buying a portable 15" monitor so that when I'm forced to work on laptop, I have the option to use dual display. Basically the same size as a large tablet.
Imagine me working on a 6.8" phone and a bluetooth keyboard...
It's enough for writing documentation, and for a while I was top notch at writing my docs at my underpaid job, but then I went through multiple burnout, while my sleep progressively got worse.
Hopefully they won't extend my contract after November, so I can finally sleep when I want, and not when people that feed their chickens at 5:00AM do.
I recently downsized from 2 to 1. NGL, I miss the second in some circumstances, but I also don't miss the inclination to have YouTube or Netflix constantly open if I'm not using the second for anything else.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
I went from 3 to 2, as I went from 2x24@1080p + 1x34@1440p to 2x32@4k. I the jump to 4k with such large screens meant I have a massive more amount of usable screen real estate especially as I do not use any scaling on the screens, although I do marginally increase the font size. I can manage six windows per screen all neatly tiled as long as its not my IDE, that I need a good 2/3rd of the screen to actually be useful for me.
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway. I particularly like how the virtual desktops work on Sway as I have separate virtual desktops per screen, makes them actually useful for me. Typically I have two per screen, IDE/Terminal and Discord/Signal/Music, Multiple Browser windows and Email/Teams/Office.
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway.
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I don't know if I would want to do it all the time, but I have come to appreciate the workflow when using a single monitor. I feel like I'm more focused.
This was never not the case for me.
In CRT era there was just no contest, the resolution (the amount of data displayed) alone was worlds apart. Yet I only ever had one CRT connected at a time.
Once the LCDs became minimally viable for me I just never disconnected the previous LCD when upgrading/buying another one (I've always been a "main screen + support screens" sort of operator).
Finally LCDs and OLEDs became just too big (and tiling much much better) to have "too many" monitors.
Yet there are times when I wish I had a mini monitor (one of those candy bar screens where I would just have Signal or something, about 480×1920 pixels, they are cheap but I then remember how silly the need is and don't want to further consumerism for needles thighs).
I remember when one crt was like 800x600 and another 1280x1024. Worlds apart.
Another time, another battle.
Those Trinitron tubes were beautiful
Iiyama gang here, 35 kilos and what was it, 22"?
And the one screen is also smaller unless you get a desktop replacement laptop with an 18' screen.
I specifically trained myself away from it when I went to working remote. I don't want to be tied to my desk when I could spend my day at the park, beach, coffee shop, bar, on a boat, or Disneyland and still get work done.
Luckily we have portable monitors now for when you're away from your dock
I must be lucky because I have a laptop + 2 24" 4K monitors setup and it turns out it is too much for me. Now I just use my laptop in clamshell mode with one monitor in landscape and the other in portrait mode, but I wonder if won't sell one those and keep the vertical one aside my open laptop.
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