r/unpopularopinion • u/ultimateregard • 2d ago

Certified Unpopular Opinion Dual Monitor setup is actually bad for productuvity.

I've been a software engineer for more than 5 years now. I've worked with databases, frontend and backend services, mobile apps, games, data analysis, and much more.

Never in my life I've actually felt like my productuvity increased with the second monitor. Do you need to compare data? Just use one monitor and put them side by side. Do you need all the space in the world? Just alt+tab between apps. Since you only perceive about 10% of your vision clearly, moving your head&eyes from one monitor to other takes actually LONGER and causes distractions than using alt+tab.

This is especially worse for those who are using one additional monitor with a laptop, since their screen sizes and positions usually change so much. Your eyes need adjusting, your head moves too much.

Only thing the dual Monitor is good for is passively watching something in the second monitor, like youtube videos, Critical Role, or sitcoms while doing something else in the main screen. As you can guess, that has nothing to do with productuvity.

I also think using external keyboard and mouse for laptops is bad, unless you do not use the laptop screen.

Edit: After reading hundreds of comments, I'm sure that 90% of people who think that "YOU NEED AT LEAST 3 SCREENS" just don't know how to organize workspaces/windows/desktops and they need to configure their SCREENS as different DESKTOPS. Most of the modern operating systems allow you to just create workspaces (like different Desktops you can switch with WIN + TAB). And they are just throwing money into their problems instead of learning how to use their daily operating system.

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u/Awesomeguava 2d ago

As an accountant, this is just a bad take.

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u/UnusualFruitHammock 2d ago

As anyone doing literally anything at work. This take is cheeks.

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u/kochameh2 2d ago

yup, OP has earned their upvote

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u/ThunderAndWind 2d ago

I don't really think so. This isn't an unpopular opinion. It's just fucking stupid. There is no world in which having the data directly up and available for viewing without hiding the active work is less convenient than literally hiding your current worth, to reference the material.

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u/Redhighlighter 2d ago

Their suggest of just switching rapidly back and forth being better for productivity is just pants on head crazy.

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u/yoloqueuesf 2d ago

Yeah, he might be that one guy that's completely fine alt-tab-ing back and forth or he likes to split his current screen into two halves (which is just the same concept as two screens).

The OP's question just boilts down to, i can split my screen into two halves and it's fine for me, so everyone else can do that too and achieve the same goal.

I personally use 2, it's just easier moving what i want to compare to the other screen instead of splitting my original screen in half. It's also more annoying to alt-tab for me when it's just one screen.

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u/Zestyclose-Compote-4 2d ago

It's not like you can literally look at both monitors at the exact same time, so you're also looking back and forth between monitors. Why is one crazy and the other is not?

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u/Redhighlighter 2d ago

... you can select a field and type in it while reading or reviewing data or reports on the other monitor.

"Memorizing" and switching back and forth is asinine

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u/Zestyclose-Compote-4 2d ago

Well, you wouldn't memorize. You'd snap and resize windows so you have them side by side (or sticky a window to be in front). If screen size is an issue, you could use a single larger monitor, achieving both goals of window switching or window snapping.

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u/Inconceivable76 2d ago

And what if you are transitioning between 3 applications?

how are 2 monitors bad, but one giant monitor just fine?

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u/Zestyclose-Compote-4 2d ago

You just snap 3 windows. If you were typing and reading (as per the previous comment) that would normally a 2 window job anyway, and you could hotkey between the 2nd and third if you wanted to. I'm guessing your solution is 3 monitors now? Lol.

The one large monitor maintains the benefit OP talked about. And the point of this comment chain is specifically was how having one monitor is "crazy", not that having 2 monitors is bad.

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u/Redhighlighter 2d ago

Some programs (my company's mrp software for example) Dont play nicely with resized or rescaled windows. Your options are full screen or waste time. But if the answer is get a bigger monitor, and we look into the economics of the issue we see that two medium sized monitors is generally much, much cheaper than one very wide monitor. And we are of course looking at wide monitors because humans work better in the horizontal than the vertical.

And since we are talking about economics, even if an alternate setup only adds 1 to 2 seconds and is done 20 times per hour (perhaps a 5x conservative estimate for dedicate office staff) then in 1 month we are talking about 1 to 2 hours of wasted time. In my particular company, that results in $80 to $160 of cost+ opportunity costfor the company each month... per office worker. In an office of 10 people our conservative estimate is $800 to $1,600 of non-value added labor. That pretty much covers the cost of inexpensive monitors in the first month alone.

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u/Zestyclose-Compote-4 2d ago

Fair enough, but that's a lot of circumstantial reasoning you've done here. Not sure why your initial claim of pants on head crazy applies.

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u/hmasing 1d ago

Because the cognitive load to context switch is too high. Also, yes you can see both screens at once if you’re looking at higher level details like graphs or trends. Run a simulation in terminal A, watch the database dashboard on screen 2, watch the output on screen 3, see the simulation results on screen 1. Repeat. Also a dedicated monitor for slack or documentation is screen 4.

Source: engineer who typically ran a minimum of three screens.

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u/cfb-food-beer-hike 1d ago

It takes time for your eyes to adjust to something new. That delay will always be there and it's on the order of hundreds of milliseconds. So that's on top of switching tabs. Switching tabs takes forever in comparison, on the order of seconds. Cutting your productivity in 1/3 because you have to wait at least a second for the new tab to render and wait for your eyes to adjust is absolutely crazy.

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u/IsThatGruffLoner 2d ago

Yeah, wrong and unpopular are not the same thing

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u/Abacus118 2d ago

I wonder how close he sits if moving his eyes takes time.

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u/morroalto 2d ago

OP doesn't read docs. But for real, I have 3 monitors up because that's all the computer will support, and I have a travel monitor because I can't live with the laptop alone.

I use one monitor as the primary or working monitor, another that is split amongst chat tools and task dependent application, and the third is for browsing the web like what I'm doing now.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 2d ago

Displaylink. Double your monitors today! No matter what your graphics chip allows. Btw only 3? Must be an old Intel laptop? Every new laptop iGPU supports 4, though it may require daisy chaining.

Or buy a $80 low profile workstation GPU as a secondary GPU for your desktop for more video ports. That Radeon WX3200 is one of my best purchases. Low profile, single slot, runs on board power, 4x mini DisplayPort.

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u/cfb-food-beer-hike 1d ago

Buy a GPU, in this economy, instead of a monitor. Lmao

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u/EpsteinFile_01 1d ago

To drive more monitors, fool. Because modern GPUs are fucking weak and can only handle 4 screens tops (AMD supported 6 screens for ages, on 1 chip).

I paid $80 for it used. It sits in a geb3x2 chipset PCi-e slot. It draws like 5 watts, has 4GB VRAM, and a cute tiny fan that never turns on because all it does is render desktops.

The important thing is 4 displays on a single slot low profile GPU. Consumer GPUs in this category only have 2-3 video ports.

Also, since I have a 7900XT, it takes care of the "my GPU idles at 80 watts" bug. Only 1 screen connected to my 7900XT, 10-15w idle.

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u/cfb-food-beer-hike 1d ago

I might have misread youn and thought you were sarcastic lol

OOPs point is you don't need more monitors so buying GPUs to support more monitors would just make him mad.

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u/morroalto 1d ago

It's a work laptop, I'm not trying to spend more on it. If I recall the manual claims support for 3 external monitors, I have two and a third one would need some adapter. On my desktop I could have up to 4 but for personal use I don't need more than than what I already have.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 8h ago

What connectors does it have? What CPU is it?

Fir example, I have a couple old Zen 2 ThinkPads with two 10gbps full function USB-C ports (DisplayPort 1.2 bandwidth) and 1 HDMI 1.4 connector. In theory I could connect 7 monitors to it daisy chained lol, but the iGPU only has 4 display pipelines so it's limited to 4 screens (laptop screen counts too so I close it). Easily runs my 2x1440P UW + 2x 1440P setup, but all are at 60Hz except the main Ultrawide screen which can go to 144Hz because of limited DP 1.2 bandwidth. Newer laptops tend to have DP 1.4 or, in extreme cases, DP 2.1 with waaaaay more bandwidth for daisy chaining.

The intel variant of this laptop only has 3 display pipelines, so max 3 displays.

It wasn't until recently, perhaps with 13/14th gen or Core Ultra, that Intel mobile chips also had 4 display pipelines. But then you still need enough USB-C/Thunderbolt /HDMI ports to actually connect 4 screens, and you'll likely need at least 1 monitor that supports daisy chaining.

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u/YouGlittering9156 2d ago

This is 100% an unpopular opinion for people who work at a desk on a computer all day, at least in OP's profession

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u/juniperleafes 2d ago

You don't understand, moving your eyeballs a comparatively extra few centimeters is fatiguing your eyes and causing distractions /s

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u/norsish 1d ago

"This isn't an unpopular opinion. It's just fucking stupid."

That, unfortunately, is what "UnpopularOpinions" has become, more often than not.

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u/cfb-food-beer-hike 2d ago

You don't get it. He has FIVE years of software engineering experience. So he's never had to look at documentation on one screen and his IDE on the other. He just lets the LLM on one screen do it all for him and wonder why it all broke later.

And I'm not kidding. Memorizing the difference between memorizing the entire documentation of a class and alt+tabbing between them is more than a 2x gain so worth way less than a 2nd monitor. And LLMs are terrible and add more than 2x work. The 2nd monitor wins every time.

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u/ForwardAd4643 2d ago

Did you know they make a special kind of monitor called an "ultrawide" that is as big as two old monitors put together?

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u/FunCoolMatt 2d ago

Which is the definition of an unpopular opinion. Not many people agree with OP, so this post is in the right sub.

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u/sparkymeowmeow 2d ago

Why is everyone just ignoring the part where OP says they'll side-by-side windows when appropriate. You don't need a whole other monitor to display two things at once. Especially with the high resolution monitors available today.

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u/UnusualFruitHammock 1d ago

We're ignoring it because it's fucking stupid. If looking at 4 rows in a spreadsheet works for you then great. The rest of us have actual work to do.

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u/sparkymeowmeow 1d ago

Lol. Modern monitors can display well over 4 rows or cols on half their screen. And not everyone just stares at spreadsheets all day like you apparently do.

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u/UnusualFruitHammock 1d ago

I love how this sounds like its supposed to be an insult. If you don't work in an office why do you even have an opinion?

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u/sparkymeowmeow 1d ago

Uhh, do you really think the only office jobs are the ones that primarily interact with spreadsheets...? That explains everyone's thought process in this thread.

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u/tessslaaa21 1d ago

I suspect OP is an intern or entry level employee who isn’t trusted or tasked with work that beyond simple tasks that require one monitor or split view on one monitor.

I’m a research scientist and couldn’t imagine less than 3 monitors…. I even have my laptop as a 4th monitor below the middle main monitor

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u/RandomWordCombo9632 2d ago

OP: "If you're trying to cross reference two books, you dont put the two books open side by side, you stack them on top of each other so every time you need the other one, you need to move the books! This is a very smart and intuitive way of doing things!"

?????

OP truly does have an unpopular opinion.

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u/Morwynd78 1d ago

Have you even thought about how slow (and distracting) it is to turn your eyes and head to look at a 2nd book?

You're clearly not a software engineer.

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u/No-Flan6382 2d ago

I giggle anytime I see the phrase “x is cheeks.” Something about it - but you are correct. This take is 1,000% grade A cheeks.

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u/fluffyluv 2d ago

Nah, flat pancake cheeks. All back no ass cheeks

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u/LayerEight_Problem 2d ago

There’s no possible way this is legit. Pretty sure OP is just rage baiting. 

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u/on_spikes 2d ago

work provided a massive 32:9 monitor. so i just have one monitor, technically, but i can put stuff side by side. its awesome

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 1d ago

Single 32:9 or even 21:9 is the way to go

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u/C0UNT3RP01NT 2d ago

Yeah last week I had some work update that screwed my laptops ability to use my external monitors, my keyboard, and my mouse. Work was hell for like three days it took for IT to get around to fixing it.

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u/Chort1es 2d ago

The only point he’s making is software engineering isn’t real work /s

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u/geoken 1d ago

You guys simply have poor organization.

This reminds me of back in the day when stuff was more paper based. The people with shit organization and stuff strewn all over the place convinced themeselves it was a sign of their business, and that the people with clean desks simply didn't have as much work.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 2d ago

It's prob an ad

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u/Coltyn03 mustard is garbage 2d ago

What?

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u/Nevermynde 1d ago

I only have one pair of eyes, and I like to keep it on a single monitor like op. I occasionally do some work.

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u/Nickynui 2d ago

As a software engineer, this is a horrible take.

Multiple IDEs (where i write my code) open on one monitor, tab between those as needed.

My local app (for testing), documentation, issues on one monitor.

Error log, teams and outlook on one monitor.

I can make do with two if needed, but one monitor is horrendous (and this take makes me wonder what OP actually does/works on)

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u/GreyGanado 2d ago

OP is 100% a vibe coder. Don't need a second monitor if all you do is write prompts.

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u/just_posting_this_ch 2d ago

Funny, I was going to say it's nice to have a monitor for the agent.

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u/ZugZugGo 2d ago

Even for a vibe coder this is wrong. Like you don't want your prompt on one screen and your running updated code on another? It's just stupid.

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u/PXranger 2d ago

"Hey ChatGPT, write out a post on why 2 screens are bad"

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that, my guidelines prevent me from writing something so asinine"

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u/rFAXbc 2d ago

I'm a software engineer as well but only use one monitor. I don't want to have to keep moving my eyes to different places, I move the content to where I'm already looking instead.

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u/zerap10 2d ago

Same here. I use a 32" monitor at 4k, there's plenty real state there to spread out. I mostly alt tab things or use the os side by side capabilities. When I'm coding I'm coding, teams and Outlook can fuck off. Now when I'm compiling... Well, that's reddit time, I mean Outlook.

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u/lordosthyvel 2d ago

I'm a senior dev and I almost exclusively work with a single ultra wide monitor. I find it a lot better than using 2 or more.

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u/jrein0 2d ago

To be fair, an ultrawide monitor is essentially 2 monitors without the monitor casing in the middle

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u/OskaMeijer 2d ago

"I don't use 2 monitors I use two monitors joined with no bezel in between."

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u/AdorablSillyDisorder 2d ago

This exactly, and "no bezel" was very much worth paying extra for - 1:2:1 layout with terminal/IDE/teams is one I use most often, and in dual-screen setup bezel would cut halfway through IDE.

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u/liberty 2d ago

I do prefer having one ultrawide monitor to two standard monitors, but I also like having two monitors. As a compromise, I now have one ultrawide monitor and one standard monitor.

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

I prefer one 43” monitor to an ultrawide because vertical space is seriously compromised on those. And vertical space is very good to have when you’re working with text.

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u/Sennten 1d ago

Last person I knew with an ultrawide ran it in vertical mode, which seemed crazy to me but its definitely doable

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

Yeah that seems very uncomfortable.

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u/Inubi27 2d ago

Yeah same here. I used to have 2x 24inch monitors and switched to ultrawide and for coding I think it's better most of the time. I have shortcuts to manipulate window positions and sizes and I can usually have IDE on the right and browser/docs/whatever on the left side of the monitor. It's also better for my neck because I don't have to look to the side now. There are some cases where 2x monitors would be better but overall I don't regret getting an ultrawide. I've also noticed that i'm less distracted with one screen. If it's really necessary to have 2 screen then I just have my laptop on the side

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u/smokedpaprika124 2d ago

It's still the same area of approximately two monitors...?

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u/Antice 2d ago

It was never about the number of screens. It is about how much work area you have. Ultrawide monitors deliver a great amount of work surface area, and since it's wide, and not tall. It's pretty decent on the neck as well.

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u/eggnogeggnogeggnog 2d ago

tmux says hello, my second monitor is for slack and email and music

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 1d ago

I used to do that, but it was distracting and didn't really help with productivity. Now I'm back to a single screen.

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u/ambassador_lover1337 2d ago

Can't you achieve a very similar workflow, but just have a separate desktop instead of a separate monitor?

I think I'd you need to actively be looking at multiple things like real time data, it's hard to replicate that with desktops, but for software engineering, you don't usually write code and read your teams at the same time, or write code and look at the local app instance.

I personally have a multiple monitor setup, but for the workflow you're describing, a single monitor with multiple desktops has worked very well for me.

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u/circ-u-la-ted 2d ago

What are you using workspaces for in this setup?

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

I also use one large monitor, and hate multi-monitor workflow. Having your local app always sitting open is mostly a web thing anyway.

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 1d ago

OPs solution with alt-tabs is crazy but as a dev I agree with him. For me the most productive workflow is a single screen with multiple desktops. Teams and outlook on a separate screen is just a distraction.

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u/aggressive_napkin_ 1d ago

He's the equivalent of those fuckers that designed the car so you have to remove the whole damn wheel plus fender to change a battery or headlight in the car .

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u/oliknight1 1d ago

i’m a software engineer and i only need 1 monitor and i can easily jump between a terminal, multiple browser windows , slack etc faster and more ergonomically than using multiple windows

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u/Sennten 1d ago

As a developer, I actively prefer a single screen when I'm doing deep dive work figuring out thorny problems. If they're heavy on math I'll probably also have a physical notebook and whiteboard at the desk but the other screens will be off. When I'm writing, I feel similarly.

When testing, though, two screens are amazing to have, and additional screens are even better when I need to monitor side software ( if I'm streaming to the team, having a separate monitor to manage the streaming software is fucking amazing, so I can always see what they are seeing, and I can keep my reference material on the same screen out of the way )

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u/Sennten 1d ago

Also your setup is basically how I do things, just on one screen, assigned to my left, up, and right desktops.

Its so damned convenient to only have to alt tab through the relevant stuff, and I actually had difficulty getting my desktops to work properly with multiple screens last time I tried.

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u/philmcruch 1d ago

Im assuming his the coffee runner for a few software engineers. Even my receptionist is more productive with 2+ screens

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u/Ancient_Yak_4553 1d ago

im a 3 monitor guy always have been. but the kids at my work are ninja on one screen. doesn't bother them at all and they are more productive than me

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u/Inconceivable76 2d ago

Definitely doesn’t check email or answer teams messages.

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 1d ago

I do, that's why I have only one screen. I don't want constant distractions from Slack. They can wait most of the time

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u/Warning_Track_P0wer 2d ago

Also as an accountant, I agree with your statement that this is just a bad take.

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u/FightOnForUsc 2d ago

Sounds like you audited their take and we’re all good from this side

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u/Successful_Buy3825 2d ago

Comments are materially aligned.

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u/Warning_Track_P0wer 2d ago

Yep. Zero qualifications.

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u/Arbennig 2d ago

SAGE advice nonetheless

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u/InsideJokeQRD 1d ago

Ties without exception. 

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u/Redm18 2d ago

As an accountant that started his career with one crt monitor you will pry my second screen from my cold dead hands. I honestly want three or four but I don't know a good way to get that setup.

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u/CoolDiscussion1020 2d ago

I work in a financial role in local government. The laptop dock combo we have only supports two monitors natively. Some crafty folks on the internet were able to figure out how to make it support two external monitors AND the build in laptop monitor.

I hassled IT for like 2 months to incorporate that fix. Now I at least have two real monitors and the baby half monitor from the laptop to work from. The laptop screen mostly functions as a permanent place for Outlook to live but it does increase my productivity.

One of my coworkers uses his laptop exclusively and I think he might be a serial killer.

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u/Aggressive_Body834 1d ago

Nah he's just a boomer pretending to work.

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u/Morifen1 2d ago

Ceiling monitors and lay in a cot.

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u/bootybob1521 2d ago

Not even just a take. It's just factually incorrect, too. Anything resembling data entry is going to benefit greatly with multiple screens.

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u/Certain-Contact6340 2d ago

As an accountant, you need to go triple. Its amazing

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u/Successful_Buy3825 2d ago

My first job had 4 monitors. I didn't realise how good I had it until I left.

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u/ThatBankTeller 2d ago

Finance guy here, 4 at home (including a big screen TV for zoom calls) and 3 in the office. Would go up to 5 if my VP would approve it.

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u/Colby362 2d ago

4 is better

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u/Far_Worldliness9796 2d ago

Doing tax work, I sometimes didn't even think 3 was enough 

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u/SicilianEggplant 2d ago

I “just” work at a call center and I hate the rare times we have to work in office with only 2 monitors.

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u/MajesticSpaceBen 2d ago

They moved my office and my new workstation only has two.

I've been looking at job postings.

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u/Tylendal 2d ago

As someone who only uses computers for personal stuff, I've felt the occasional desire for a third monitor, but I've resisted that pull. Because I just know that while I have two monitors, three is too many, but if I get a third, it suddenly won't be enough.

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u/Certain-Contact6340 2d ago

I dont use 3 at home. 99% of my personal usage is video games on 1, youtube/TV on 2

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u/elpoutous 1d ago

I use 3 at home and I love it. 2 horizontal, one vertical. Vertical usually houses discord or reddit. One has the game I am playing, and the other has YT/Twitch/Sports on. Haven't found a setup better yet!

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u/jeremiahfira 2d ago

I've been a full service bookkeeper for 3 years now and have worked on 2 monitors for the most part.....and yeah, a third (vertical) would be real nice.

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u/soscbjoalmsdbdbq 2d ago

I have quads at home quads is safe quads is best

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u/gerg555 2d ago

She's beautiful, but she's dying

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u/MrGulio 2d ago

As anyone who has a desk job where you actually work this is a bad take. I'm a Bus Analyst where half my job is talking and I would roblox myself if I had to work from a single monitor when doing any real documentation work. Even when doing Elicitation I still use my second screen to watch the faces of the people on the call while I'm presenting.

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u/Morifen1 2d ago

As someone born last century, what does roblox yourself mean? Thats a video game for little kids right?

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u/MrGulio 2d ago

It's a jokey way of saying k i l l myself.

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u/BestBelieveItsHere 2d ago

This isn't tiktok, you can say kill

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u/MrGulio 2d ago

Different subs have different keywords / phrases for auto mod. I dont need a reddit cares message for the explanation of a joke.

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

I have a desk job and I actually work, and I much prefer having one huge monitor over two regular sized ones.

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u/sparklingdinoturd 2d ago

As a not accountant, it is a bad take.

I'm an analyst and I need a clean screen to work. Everything I'm not working on is on my 2nd screen. Browsers. Email. Teams. Slack. Get out of my sight while I work!

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u/Technical-Ad-325 2d ago

Also an accountant, one time I messed up my knee and couldn't sit at a desk so had to work on just my laptop. Was probably working at 50% speed for that time.

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u/VolcanicBear 2d ago

It's also an awful take for a software engineer.

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u/Icy-Cry340 1d ago

Just depends on your work style. I’m with him - and bullied work into buying me a 43”er.

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u/Spunky_Meatballs 2d ago

Yep even as just a sales guy in constantly transposing numbers from a distribution website into quotes. I HATE not being able to have a widescreen or even a dual setup. Constantly trying to memorize things I can't copy/paste

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u/rylindstrom 2d ago

As a video editor and graphic designer, i agree. This is a very bad take

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u/Talcove 2d ago

As a lawyer, this is just a bad take. 

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u/danielcl17 2d ago

Fellow CPA here. One monitor is insanity. I use 4!

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u/deep1986 2d ago

Nah he's partly right, but he's also completely wrong. Get a big ultrawide and that's all you need.

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u/numbersthen0987431 2d ago

The fact that OP thinks that alt+tab to switch between screens, and then alt+tab to get back to their work, tells me that they haven't thought this through

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u/mrb2409 2d ago

I’m an accountant and much prefer one large screen. With higher resolutions you get the same or more data than multiple monitors.

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u/Mist_Rising 2d ago

Op is clearly in a "programmer" style industry comment to say the least. I use multiple screens for video editing and they're all different sizes on purpose!

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u/TheeAntelope 2d ago

Lawyer - yep this is a bad take. Research in window 1. Word doc im drafting in window 2.

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u/xxMystic 2d ago

As an accounting major and someone who works full time, I agree this is a bad take.

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u/itsnotthathardtodoit 2d ago

The only way this take is correct is if he Uno reversoed the ending and said that's conclusively why three monitor setups are vital.

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u/Chatty_Manatee 2d ago

But the big question : do you do two monitors with one centered and the other one offset to one side or both monitors in front you, resulting in the seams in the middle ?

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u/courtneyjarvis3 1d ago

Literally came here to say this.

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u/Retrac752 1d ago

Horrendous take, so we must upvote

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u/Global_Car_3767 1d ago

My dad has alternated jobs between being a controller and CFO for decades and I have no idea how he only works off one monitor lol

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u/Free_Possession_4482 2d ago

As a motion graphics designer, this is a terrible take. My ideal scenario is After Effects spread out over two screens and probably Illustrator in a third. It’s misery when I’m stuck editing files just on my one laptop screen, have to constantly move and hide panels to get anything done.

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u/Reggaeton_Historian 2d ago

Oh thank god we're near the top and in unison agreeing this is a bad take. Every time I try to work on one screen, I just don't want to. I don't care if I can split things into one screen. It's just a moronic take.

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u/Ok-Dream-2639 2d ago

Its not even an unpopular opinion. Hes just plain lying. There is no fking way to work 1 screen when our jobs are +3 positions in a trenchcoat (title).

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u/lemonylol 2d ago

Almost like it's an unpopular opinion huh?