How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor

Re:How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor by amelius on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:59PM (#24486638)

> Further, I find the animation experience of my whole world changing in front of me when I go to a different workspace to be incredibly distracting

What kind of animation does your OS use? For me, on Gnome, the transition is instantaneous (no animation). Switching between workspaces is snappy.

Also, if you change tabs in your browser, then you also have "the whole world changing in front of you". I'm curious what exactly makes a virtual desktop not pleasant to use for you.

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Re:How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor by t-writescode on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:56PM (#24487192)

I don't actually change tabs in a browser that often. I tend to have what I want open and I don't keep very many tabs open.

There's also to do with the frequency of the action. I don't open new tabs very much; and, when I do, I tend to already be distracted and doing something off-hand, like looking at Reddit. Deep in work, it's far more distracting and would be far, far more regular.

As for relevant operating system:

  * OS X
  * Linux (Mint, generally)

With multiple monitors, I've generally stopped using the virtual desktop experience.

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