A major pain (literally) point for me with laptop screens is posture. My neck aches after a day of looking mostly down. I suppose an external keyboard and mouse would help but I would have to get a stand and blah blah.
Also for my particular workload real estate is very handy. I totally agree with there being some virtue to constraints but several times a day I really need the space.
Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
by mumblemumble on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:27PM
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That's a fair point. I do place my laptop on a stand and use an external keyboard and mouse, even when I'm working from home.
I think this really depends on the work you do, also. Pure development or content creation and I'm good with just a laptop. For research, with team communication, concurrent terminal sessions, debugging, management - I really do want at least 3 screens.
To be honest, I think I may stick to it. At first, the huge monitor was fun, and initial change to having less screen real estate was definitely a drag. But, now that I'm accustomed to it again, I'm finding that "I can fit less stuff on the screen at once" is just another way of saying, "it's harder to distract myself with extra stuff on the screen." My productivity is possibly up, and certainly no worse.