I'm none of these. I have two normal and one rotated 90 degrees for the odd legal sized document that gets scanned in. When I was doing a lot of data entry in one of my jobs, it helped.
Holy.... a GIS meme in the wild
I've seen a coder have exactly two vertical monitors.
6 but they're all different sizes. One I've had since 2016, one was $20 from goodwill, and the other I found on the side of the road.
Multi-DPI setups are the awkwardest. I've got one too
I'm 5, because I'm writing and reading a lot. It makes no sense to have a horizontal screen for text.
The only thing mental is putting up with all of these seams. If you're not in a tactical environment that requires this -- say for being able to set up and move on the fly -- then just get a big ass monitor. They're life changing.
7 is radiology
My GIS rig is different than any of those.
Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.
Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.
I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it's a big TV on the wall of my office that's usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I'm meeting with people in my office.
I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.
Get bent, fucking casuals!
Half of those setups make zero practical sense and are only there because someone thought symmetry would look cool.
Either one secondary monitor that can be pivoted 90° or two, one being horizontal, the other vertical...
I want to meet the man who uses 7, but 14 scares me.
#7 is pretty common for radiologists
I have a CRT and a standard flat screen where am on this?
poor
GIS? Graphical, IT and what?
Can someone explain to me how to connect so many monitors? Like I had two HDMI ports and I think thats pretty normal? How are people doing 3+ monitors?
You can daisy chain displayport, as long as you have the bandwidth for it. I think the real issue is not how many monitors, but just how many pixels you're trying to drive. Since secondary monitors are typically 1080p, the whole collection of them should be the same as a 4k main monitor.
5 but mostly because I like looking at pretty jwst pictures when I die in a video game. Technically it's for my music player and monitoring torrents...
Ha, I'm not on here. Wait, that's probably a bad thing.
How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?
#13 but the laptop's in between monitors. Does that count as mental illness?
Sorry, yes...
I'm none of these.
One large center monitor, a smaller 1080p to the left and right, and above the center large one for a total of four.
Perfect for being a DM.
For work use I’m #13, except I remove the keyboard, put the laptop in front to use that keyboard, then center the monitors behind it.
For personal use, I’m #3
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