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[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

As a developer, I find the great bang for buck is two monitors, with minor benefits for each additional monitor. Examples of use for extra monitors:

  • code on main monitor (or more if I have multiple projects open)
  • app I'm working on
  • documentation
  • Stack Overflow/Search/AI chat
  • Team chat/Slack
  • Email
  • infrastructure/performance monitors, logs
  • Mandatory reboot notice from the IT department shoved in a corner until I can reboot without losing work

Of course if you have a large monitor you can tile windows instead of having N screens. Virtual desktop also exist.