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by cecilpl2 2634 days ago
I appear to be in the minority. I use 3 24" monitors at work because it's the most I can fit on my desk, but at home I bought a 6-monitor stand and have a 2x3 grid of 22-24" displays.

It's perfect for project work - one display for the site I'm building, one for my IDE, one for 2 terminals split vertically, two displays for documentation/research, and one for messaging/music/misc other stuff.

I wouldn't ever go back to fewer displays, and only wish I had bought the 8-monitor stand instead.

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Watch out your eyes health, try to look far away as much as possible if you don’t want to lose the ability to focus far away. I’m speaking from direct experience as per my other comment.
I use to use 1080p 3x 24s, I recently upgraded to a 2k 27". If I had the same resolution for the 24s, I'd go back.

https://i.imgur.com/T4L7W7t.jpg

I couldn't use two monitors, as I need a focal point. It's nice to use the secondary monitors for extra things, depending on the workflow. For browser development, a browser tab and devtools on the side, text editor in the middle, everything else (spotify, filebrowser, discord, documentation) on the other side.

Bonus: Me and my wife's current temp setup https://i.imgur.com/klRAeCd.jpg (yes that's a massage table)

I used to work in finance and the traders had similar setups. I found that they started to give me information overload anxiety, I could not imagine installing one at home.