>that guy who has less than 3 monitors
>>52136673
Multiple monitors are a symptom of bad window management. Typically found with Microsoft Windows users who don't even have virtual desktops.
Linus Torvalds leads the largest successful open source project with only 1 monitor.
>>52136703
>hurr durr durr I'm so fucking poor
>>52136703
i pity the dead for not operating on 1+ monitors
>>52136719
>>52136673
>fewer
>>52136719
>money determines quality
>>52136703
False dichtomy.
>>52136740
Additional monitors are useless if your window management is decent.
>>52136765
Good point, but window management handles division of space. More monitors mean more space, which is better.
>>52136785
Window management also includes virtual desktops, or "tags" in more advanced window managers. Your can't read text on two monitors simultaneously anyway.
>>52136797
>can't read text on two monitors simultaneously anyway
>humans have 2 eyes
>one eyeball for one screen
>>52136703
>Linus Torvalds leads the largest successful open source project with only 1 monitor.
And yet this is his battlestation.
>>52136818
That's Moronix editor Michael Larabel's home office. Citation:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/522980575451692114/
Pic related is Linus Torvalds' battle station.
Citation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgUPqygAww
>>52136797
Virtual desktops are nice, but you need to hide one to show the other. More monitors mean you can look at multiple things at the same time.
>>52136847
Linus doesn't even code anymore. He just mostly emails and give stamps of approval.
>>52136847
What a hoarder.
>>52136906
>look at multiple things at the same time.
Are you saying you can read text on two monitors simultaneously with adequate speed?
>>52136945
Of course that's not what I'm saying.
>>52136973
So why do you need two monitors again?
Even Medvedev has dualies
>>52136673
i dont have a monitor
I understand having multiple monitors at work but at home it's a waste of money for 99% of people.
>>52136994
Home - 2x24 16:10 - one monitor web browser other youtube
Work - 1x19 4:3, 1x19 16:9 - one monitor main document, other reference/mail
Did try triple but that was just too much for me.
>>52136673
right for permanent chat windows
middle for vidya, browsing, watching movies or whatever
left if i want to do something else while doing something on the middle one
>>52137011
lol no one is in russian, the other is in indonesian
>>52136994
This is the same argument you fucks use against the smart watch. We find it easier to just look at the other screen than to mess with obscure shortcuts.
>>52137022
I work from home, and need them. Debugging fullscreen applications is infinitely more convenient with 2+ monitors.
>>52137061
>mess with obscure shortcuts.
Once you've used a good window manager for years, you don't even think about shortcuts. They become a part of your body.
>>52137075
lol lintards
>>52137075
Whatever you say nerd. The fact is that for the majority of people using a proper GUI (with a mouse) is easier.
>>52136703
>>52136703
>Typically found with Microsoft Windows users who don't even have virtual desktops
Windows 10 has virtual desktops...
>>52137134
I actually have 2 monitors because I fell for the meme. Turns out it's 100% useless because of my superior window management skills.
I have 2 monitors. An ultrawide 60hz IPS monitor I bought recently and a much older 120hz TN monitor with a resolution of 1680x1050.
I can't find a logical reason to use both at the same time. Sure, I kinda miss those 120hz at times, or the lack of tearing on shit with low framerate where I don't use vsync. But it seems like a waste of electricity. What for? It looks pretty shitty alongside my new monitor. It also produces a high pitched noise when turned off. C'mon. Don't even convince me to use it. I'm over that already. Those years are gone.
>>52136740
Lol retard
>>52137142
Congrats on being retarded I guess
>>52136673
The only valid reason for having more than one monitor is having ADHD and being able to watch a movie while doing something else on the side.
3440x1440
Don't need 2 or 3
>>52137166
>The only valid reason for having more than one monitor is having ADHD
And terrible window management. Not having keyboard shortcuts stored in muscle memory.
>being able to watch a movie while doing something else on the side.
Yeah, maybe bottom of the barrel flicks that require the attention span of an amoeba, like "Star Wars" or "Transformers".
I have two monitors at my battlestation (win10) and I use a bunch of workspaces on XFCE on my laptop. I've gotten used to the extra real estate and now I get claustrophobic on one monitor/on desktop setups.
Also, the Windows implementation of virtual desktops is really shitty. They're not that useful if you can't see what's going on in all the workspaces with a workspace switcher.
>>52136994
Actually, I need three. Look at the OP mate.
Seems like you're the one who can't even concentrate on a single monitor.
>>52136765
Window management doesn't supply additional screen real estate if it's really needed.
>>52137354
When is it really needed?
>>52137011
>two mice
Looks more like two computers to me. Btw the monitors are fucking bulky for LCDs, aren't they.
>>52137374
When you need to see much stuff at once without juggling windows, that's when. Why do you think NOCs have 4 or more monitor setups?
>>52137441
>When you need to see much stuff at once without juggling windows, that's when
Write software that reduces the data's entropy.
>>52137441
>Why do you think NOCs have 4 or more monitor setups?
To impress management and customers
>>52136814
Underrated Post
>>52136673
Maybe, but he shits in three different streets.
>>52137142
You've never had to type and read at the same time?
>>52137134
kek'd
>>52137022
Implying some of us have separate locations for those two things
>>52137134
that's your average firefox user, the grapes being chrome xd
>>52137374
Reading documentation or other resources while typing or watching a video while playing a game (if you're into that sort of thing).
ITT: younglings who've never truly understood why you need multiple monitors.
>>52137644
But i can reach the grapes? It's just that grapes are poisonous and contain a camera that will photograph my organ qualities for later harvesting as needed by grapecorp™
>>52136673
poo in the loo Rajesh
I know a lot of people that say multiple monitors are the shit. When I actually look at their usage patterns, they're just using one and ignoring the others.
I just find it much easier to press a shortcut than to look elsewhere. I tried using two monitors; the only time where it came handy is to display progress or stuff you want to check periodically; never for real active usage.
>>52137645
>watching a video while playing a game
kek.
You can't focus on either and do badly in the game and you can't follow the story in the video, so what is the point?
>>52137778
You aren't actively watching the video, just listening while being able to see it out of the corner of your eye. I do it all the time with Always Sunny or The Office.
>>52137823
then you are probably not having sound on the game, which means you are not getting the same informations your opponents do, so you are likely to do worse. Splitting focus is a bad idea.
>>52136944
Literally me.
i use one window at a time
>>52136703
>>52136847
To be fair. Linus' job currently consists of merging packages and ranting on mailing lists. He mostly works in his email client.
>>52138384
I like having multiple screens so that after I'm done working on some code I can have it compile on a second screen and can keep track of it with a simple glance while I devote 90% of my attention to a movie or show I'm watching.
Also with multiple screens I can have a full browser window on one and then have a pdf or an IDE on another screen in case I need to compare data when writing reports or something rather than having to flick b/w windows.
Rather than a big 24"+ screen I choose to have 2 or 3 15" screens.
I have tried using dual monitors and it just made me feel ADD. The only use I found for it was having a video on one monitor while doing something else on the other, but even then it's not like I could concentrate on both at the same time.
>>52136847
Linus is fat... look at that gut!
>>52138478
and that is fine.
I was saying that watching a movie is meant to be entertaining, playing a game is meant to be entertaining.
And just like watching several movies at once is a bad idea, several form of entertainment is bad as well.
Having your IDE on one screen and the result / SO on the other is a great setup, but watching a video while working / playing a game is bound to divide your attention you end up doing none of those things.
>>52138764
Yeah I definitely agree with you on that, people who do that are like those people on /a/ that watch at 1.5x speed.
>>The amount of faggots In this thread defending their poorstations is laughable.
No one considers that maybe both proper wm and multiple monitors can be extremely effective.
I use two monitors side by side and four windows stacked side by side.
Multiple monitors is a slippery slope.
>Dual monitors is great!
>Oh wow how can I live without three monitors
>m-maybe I should get a fourth one?
Seriously, where does it end.
>>52136673
>less than
What if he has one that is equal to 3 monitors?
>>52136719
>my overglrofied reddit/facebook/twitter/steam station cost me 3000 dollars
>>52137422
Anti botnet shielding.
I have a 27 inch 4K IPS monitor and that suits me fine.
Although there is a minor black dot (not a dead pixel) clearly as a result of some debris getting between the LCD and backlight. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've seen people successfully use suction cups to pull the LCD forward enough for debris to fall to the bottom of the monitor out of sight. Does that work?
I could use more than one monitor but I don't
>>52136673
> New girl in my office was provided a laptop and a dock connected to an external monitor, keyboard, & mouse.
> She leaves the monitor off and hunches over to use the laptop screen and I/O.
WTF
I can understand using one screen, but this is beyond me.
>needing a monitor at all
>>52136703
Whatever works for you, mate.
>>52136703
Is there a way to get proper window management in win 10?
>>52137211
you don't need that many tables
>>52137422
Those are very likely NEC displays, I would recognize the design of their displays anywhere. Built like fucking tanks they are - thick plastic outer frame with an all-metal inner frame, built in glorious Japan, one of those could probably shield him from a bullet.
>>52136703
Why have virtual desktops when I can get 1600x1200 ips displays for $30?
Why have virtual desktops if I want to keep things visible while doing something that requires a full screen?
>>52138384
It's kind of hard to focus on 3 eve clients at the same time without multiboxing software
But I do it anyway and have 4 monitors because I can
>>52141126
>tfw infinite monitors in the next few years as the res of vr headsets gets higher
>>52139959
>where am I going to get cheap VESA arms?
>how much weight can my desk handle?
I know this feeling
>>52136703
this
multimonitor is a meme
>>52136673
>tfw you have a 27" and you don't need another monitor
>>52136673
I know, right? Not being an autistic twelve-year old is great!
>>52137211
Where'd you get that middle desk?
>>52137011
>two mice
for what purpose?
>>52144213
Also, many monitors sadly dont habe VESA mounts anymore... But yeah, enjoying my triple head setup :P
>>52141126
>buying cuckerberg-financed goy reality goggles
What if I want to do multiple things at the same time like play a game while watching a video?
Should I make them both 1/4 screen and put them in a corner?
>that guy who has 3 monitors
>>52144483
He works in IT, it's nice having an extra mouse to plug in to shit you're fixing.
>>52144483
Twice the headshots
>>52136847
his voice is fairly dreamy
>>52136726
i used to have 2 monitors, but then i switched back to just 1 because it's just more comfortable to me, and keeps me focused
>>52141126
> 2016 and not coding in VR
WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE G?
One 4k 32" screen > multiple shitty monitors.
>>52136673
If you choose carefully, 1 monitor can be enough.
> UHD = 2.25x 1440@16:9 or 1.67x 1440@21:9
>>52148574
Nice space ship keyboard
>>52148574
looks comfy
>>52148574
nice, I want to know more about your setup
>>52148574
What are you doing here, and what is the os? Looks like windows classic theme
>>52148900
Window 7 with Classic theme.
Besides shitposting, most of what I do is coding in tiled SuperPutty terminals.
With a 6x9 bitmap font, I can get ~7.5x 80 column, 235 row terminals of the 640 col by 240 row limit.
I use DisplayFusion to setup up 3 virtual vertical splits.
>>52148872
> LG 49UF7600 - IPS, UHD@60Hz w/4:4:4 chroma over HDMI 2.0
> Kinesis Advantage USB and Logitech G600 - HW buttom mapping plus AutoHotKeys for app-aware macros
The display doesn't have the best latency for twitch gaming and it does have IPS glow at the corners in a black room, but not having any positional color shift is important for a display this big.
I'm sticking with this until UHD@120Hz DP 1.3 displays come out in 40"+ sizes, and that may be awhile.
I'd recommend considering this type of setup for people who do a ton of text work, frequent video viewing, and occasional gaming.
>>52149168
Fuck, forgot to mention the big points about the monitor besides the IPS:
4:4:4@60Hz chroma still isn't universal on all 2015 UHD TVs due to HDMI 1.4 still being used in some.
30Hz is pretty bad if you don't have a HDMI 2.0 GPU, but using 4:2:2/4:2:0@60Hz is unusable in the desktop if you have anything resembling color linework/fonts.
The other biggie is that the LG displays let you adjust the duty cycle of the backlight independent of the LED brightness to eliminate strobing/PWM artifacts.
I've always been sensitive to flicker (which is more detectable in peripheral vision), so being able to control that was mandatory for me and led to choose this over even some of the proper 40" monitors that used pure low-Hz PWM brightness control.
So, at work I use the 1280x1024 monitor because I'm not bringing in my own to be stolen. Recently, we went through hardware and peripheral changes for our new OS and subsequent system migration that didn't have native res scaling, initially.
The older employees obviously shit all over the boss to get a scaling patched in at the companies expense, but wasn't applied until everyone but myself received not one, but two 1920x1080 monitors to help with multitasking (I wont get into detail, but none of them know what alt+tab or shift+tab are and we primarily enter data into 10-15 fields for any one entry).
What did they do when the scaling was patched in? Turned all their monitors to 1280x1024 anyway so they could see it better.
Why are their monitors so far away? So they can both fit on their desks.
Now, I'm not saying /g/ has this level of incompetence, but almost every single person I've seen use more than one monitor either;
Has two low res (or 1080p) displays
Doesn't use them in a way that remotely represents efficient.
Why do people do this when they don't need it?
>>52144528
Many times I've found a perfect monitor online, but they didn't put vesa mounting points on it
If I had the resources I'd just build a mount to adapt to the built in stand
>>52149168
>>52149273
Awesome. More people like you on /g/, and less shit posters please.
>>52149168
>>52149273
>>52148574
Jesus Christ, what is your rig? Please tell me its not the macbook..
>>52149770
fucking kek.
my primary workstation is a i5-3570K, 32GB DDR3, a GTX 960, and a Samsung 840 Pro.
I'm still connecting to my NAS over 1GbE, but I'm planning on building a new one this spring around the new Xeon-D Supermicro with on-board 10GBase-T.
>>52149893
I want to build a NAS, but I dont know where to start
>>52137539
this is rarely needed. give 3 examples senpai
>>52136797
what takes more effort, moving your eyes, or pushing a button?
>>52136736
/thread
>>52137061
>meta-(0-9)
>obscure
suicide is always an option
>>52138743
You also will at that age. Not much time left between the kids, wife, work and hobbies.
>>52136703
Kill your self faggot!
>>52136703
I used to work for Microsoft and this was my setup.
>>52137134
i have two monitors. it's inefficient.
it is faster to push alt+tab than to turn your neck and/or move your mouse
>>52150116
this looks super comfy. I think you just need a bigger desk though.
>>52150167
Doing customer support? xD
>>52150219
I was a dev then basically got fired :^)
>>52150167
because with windows you need that much bullshit just to do teksupport, right pajeet?
>>52149961
literally just:
> figure out what Linux/BSD distro you want
> figure out how much space and redundancy (i.e., RAID5/RAIDZ1, RAID6/RAIDZ2, RAIDZ3, ...) you want
> find a case, PSU, and mobo with enough bays, power, and drive connections (probably just SATA, not SAS etc.)
> buy and assemble case, PSU, mobo, cpu, ram, and drives
> scrub RAM and disks for issues
> install OS
> configure NFS or whatever else you want
if this seems like too much, just bite the bullet and buy a Synology or whatever.
>>52150185
yeah I think I'll have to custom build one my room is small.
>>52149961
Depends on what you want. Absolute stability and data integrity, FreeNAS. Even if you don't go with that, they have a lot of good hardware recommendations on their forums.
>>52150257
seems kind of fun actually. Ill look into it. Shit, I could just use an old Athlon X2 machine to play around with it. I dont need it to be very powerful.
>>52150238
>because with windows you need that much bullshit just to do teksupport, right pajeet?
There are actually multiple computers there.
The build system used to be bad and I would just switch to different computers when compiling on one.
Also I could shill on 8 Indonesian shadow puppet show consortiums at once and Pajeet would pay me.
>>52150185
yes I think I'll custom build one, my room is small.
>>52136673
At work I have a room filled with monitors and the capability to connect up to 4 on my machine... I only have 1 because it's actually easier for me... If I did a lot of work which required reading something while working on something else I would full-screen the text, but I'm not a secretary so for me it's just extra space to lose my windows on...
>>52148574
you post this in nearly every thread about monitors
>>52150461
relax. I've only posted it in a handful of threads about UHD or multi-mon stuff, and I don't even bother to read threads about all the adaptive-sync/high-Hz/whatever gaming displays.
this battlestation does trigger a lot of folks and if somebody else was doing it for fun it wouldn't surprise me at this point.
>>52150586
i'm not mad it just makes people mad and you seem to like it
>>52150175
turn your neck? your eyeballs can move left and right you know
>>52150167
>two google chrome shortcuts
>>52150783
>two
>>52150783
It was a tool that kept dropping .html things on my desktop. I'm sorry.
>>52144212
I dream of the day where I can have virtual monitors in separate rooms and can just walk about with vr
