• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 month ago

        I have 1 daily driver (personal) and 1 work.

        The other is an old one that runs twitch / Spotify/ youtube while I work on a separate pair of headphones so the work productivity monitoring software doesn’t pick it up.

        I’m hybrid so I have to take the work computer into the office once a week and on work travel trips

        My daily driver also has to be portable so I can play games next to my wife on the sofa sometimes, or I also use it for video, voice over and music editing so being able to move it also helps.

        Also I sometimes use the twitch/spotify/youtube laptop to show sheet music while I record on my daily driver without worrying about fan noise.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I have to know what you’re doing with this if it’s not, like, watching security footage. I can see a number of uses but all of them(that I can think of) are productivity based and are the kind of thing where you never really spend long periods of time on any one screen.

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I see a lot of folks using that setup where the upper monitor is playing video, like Netflix or YouTube as background entertainment while doing other stuff on the bottom two, mostly coding/work type stuff.

        • Soup@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          That makes sense. I’m tall so my main monitor sits high enough up that my laptop fits underneath which is the same vibe but inverted.

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        This is my work-from-home setup.

        2 is my laptop opened all the way and sitting in a vertical stand, so the screen is above and a little behind the other monitors, and the laptop camera is top center. I put Teams up there, so I can notice if I’m being messaged.

        1 and 3 are on a dual arm stand. They are where I do my actual work. All kinds of stuff.

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Mine is like this but upside down (2 is a laptop) and with a large gap between the top two. Sort of Mickey mouse head style, but all the same size. I primarily use 2 and 3.

      Probably chaotic evil for these as well, since they didn’t even make the chart.

      • jqubed@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Neutral Good here but I would do this if I had my monitors on arms so I could raise them above my open laptop screen; I don’t like having a gap or having the screens blocked by the laptop.

  • Player2@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    What is it considered when my side monitor is about 10% obscured by my main one because my monitor arm doesn’t open wide enough?

    • zod000@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 month ago

      I unironically love that thing from Swordfish even if deep down I know it is dumb.

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Chaotic neutral is, unironically, the best for a lot of work related tasks. It takes up less space on a desk and the vertical monitor just makes a lot of sense for reading Teams/Slack/whatever, answer emails, reading documents, etc… I actually picked it up from a friend who uses a vertical curved monitor and he said it was great for coding related work. Don’t skimp on the resolution, though, ‘cause you’ll probably want 1440p to make sure the words are clear. 4k is fine but probably overkill and needlessly expensive.

    When I worked from home I had my personal 34” curved screen in the middle of my desk for AutoCAD and a vertical monitor from work fit perfectly between the main monitor and the edge of the desk. T’was brilliant. And I’m tall so my main screen is high enough up that my laptop fits underneath and I can watch shows and stuff

    Verti-hori for lyyyfe.

  • bbuez@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Don’t @ me, there’s no going back

    Tiling WM turns the 21:9 into 2 or 3 panes perfect for reading

    Chaos

      • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        1 month ago

        Back when native resolution was 4:3 it made more sense to have them side by side, but 16:9 it just makes more sense to have them vertically stacked.

        Also, my setup is a 50" 4k TV for the top screen and a 43" 1080p for the bottom, I’d have to look sooo faaar over to see the other screen that I honestly don’t have the wall space in my room for it. I am generally reclined on a couch while using it, my head resting is centered on the upper screen with either a reference of whatever I’m working on the lower, though usually it will be a twitch stream I’m tangentially interested in but only need to take a look at it on occasion if I head something interesting happening.

      • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        I have my comp in a small nook in the side of my bedroom that’s supposed to be where a dresser lives. Couldn’t fit two monitors side by side easily so I put two ultrawides, one on top of the other. Works out really nice tbh.

        • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 month ago

          I have never seen a setup like that personally, so it feels weird to me. But I feel like it would be hard to allways look up to your second screen, because that one wouldn’t be on eye hight. And it sounds pretty anoying when you want to drag ans drop your windows by holding them an the top of your screen.

          But I get that it has advantages like less space used. Probably mostly feels weird to me, because I don’t know it :)

          • Caveman@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            That’s a valid point, I’ll probably explain why I like it.

            I don’t look up, I look down for the second and primary is eye height. I’m on Linux with KDE which has a nice 10px boundary before passing onto the next screen so I can snap all I want. I can also snap on my top bar which has the launcher, taskbar and stuff.

            I can access my bar from both the top and the bottom which is nice and convenient. Here’s a picture of the insanity :)

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    7·
    2 months ago

    I do not care for this slander. Vertical screens are used for working on documents or specially for log and debugging visualization.

  • wazzupdog (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’m not on that list LMAO.

    Because y’all ask, my monitors are offset diagonally (instead of horizontal or vertical) my main monitor is 4x the size of the other.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    I don’t subscribe to your morality. I have my second monitor on the floor under the desk.I often unplug it and plug in a projector that’s pointing at the wall to my left for YouTube while I work. Haha!

    I used to be chaotic good for some time before I decided I needed the desk space more.

      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        You say that until you see how poorly the ui fits and you have to run everything windowed if you want to multi task

        • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          2 months ago

          I’ve wondered about that. Messing around with window sizes seems mildly annoying. Also, what if you have something that wants to be full screen like a game?

          Or game + guide, or game + discord? I won’t go back to alt-tabbing…

          • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 months ago

            Windows 11 helps a lot, having the start menu in the center is crucial and you can quickly snap into place with the things at the top, if you really want to you can cut it into three sections and use it as three separate monitors but that voids the entire point of one big display, the experience is like nothing else though at its best I would honestly say it can be as good as the best VR, at its worst well it can be as bad as the worst VR.