[y4mi]

It depends heavily on what you're doing.

There is little benefit in multiple monitors for Office work (Excel, word, etc). Server admins have some benefits for multimonitors.. i.e keeping documentation open while you're on the server etc.

Especially if the Excel rows arent too wide

GUI development gets massive value from multiple monitors. Nothing beats having the application open and visible while you're changing the code.

It gets even more important if you're a full stack developer, which has several terminals open to keep track of logs, a browser for the webpage you're modifying and the editor for changes.

[o10449366]

You definitely raise some valid use cases where you need more real estate, but I think a big reason people on Mac/Windows feel like they need more space is because window management is so poor on those platforms. I came from Linux where I used tiling window managers and I really missed that on Mac. I ended up installing Amethyst and while it's not nearly as powerful as the window managers I was using before, it almost entirely killed my desire for my real estate. Now I can quickly and evenly split my editor, terminal, and browser into various layouts and adjust them as needed.

[KozmoNau7]

Office/office work can absolutely benefit from multiple monitors or large monitors. For instance, having spreadsheets open for reference, at the same time as a document you're writing.