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by niek_pas 969 days ago
Genuinely curious: what is your workflow that it requires more than 2 external monitors? Pro video?
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Amateur video and full-stack software dev were the times I really appreciated having 3 monitors, running tons of things at once that all interact with each other.

Nowadays with my big corp SWE job, things outside my control make my workflow a lot slower, and I don't benefit from using more than just 1 screen. I work on multiple things at once, but they're totally separate, so I tab between them on my laptop.

One screen for intellij, one screen for tests, one screen for browser or email, for instance
A lot of people use three screens. I don’t, I use one, but people do.