Re:Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors
by mixedCase on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:11PM
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> If you're on Linux, a tiling window manager solves most of these issues with a single monitor.
So I told myself for a while as I used a tiling wm with a monitor, and then switched to two, and now using three.
There's something in the human brain (or at least, this human's brain) that makes it easier to keep a mental context on something when you can physically separate it rather than virtually separate it. My browser (regular spanish/english text, light work) is on my left, my code (IDE/text editor) lives in the middle and music/test suites/compilation pipelines lives to my right.
When I use my laptop, despite having as much resolution as 4 monitors and using almost the same exact tiling configuration, I find it much harder to focus as comfortably as I do on the desktop.
Mind you, I admit to very rarely making full use of the third monitor, but the second one? Absolutely, wether it's backend, frontend or whatever.
So I told myself for a while as I used a tiling wm with a monitor, and then switched to two, and now using three.
There's something in the human brain (or at least, this human's brain) that makes it easier to keep a mental context on something when you can physically separate it rather than virtually separate it. My browser (regular spanish/english text, light work) is on my left, my code (IDE/text editor) lives in the middle and music/test suites/compilation pipelines lives to my right.
When I use my laptop, despite having as much resolution as 4 monitors and using almost the same exact tiling configuration, I find it much harder to focus as comfortably as I do on the desktop.
Mind you, I admit to very rarely making full use of the third monitor, but the second one? Absolutely, wether it's backend, frontend or whatever.