5 is so much office work, one portrait for reading, one landscape for everything else
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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Modeling and CAD generally require up to 4 monitors.
- App
- App submenus and subwindows
- Redlines/markups/notes
- Optional. Emails, file browsing, screen share, manuals.
Though I'd say working with complicated apps regularly will give you a mental illness, so fair.
Like it says, mental illness.
I don't do modeling or anything, but don't workspaces (virtual desktops) work better? Mostly to avoid moving your head so much around 4 screens. I would think so anyway but i dunno
I work with redlines and you need to have them open on another screen while you're making edits unless you like torturing yourself.
You can print out redlines and look at pen and paper markups which works great but it has negatives like printing a set of 20 page 22x34 drawings can be costly to plot and annoying to go through sheet by sheet
Since then I've upgraded the laptop so it actually runs on all screens. And I can switch to the desktop with a KVM.
Dragon theme -> hoarde of monitors. Checks out.
Super nice looking setup.
My KVM is the best piece of technology I've purchased. That's an impressive KVM to run that setup.
Lets be real, 4 and 8 are "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our tiling window managers" 99% the time in practice.
I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.
Get bent, fucking casuals!
13 at work 6 at home.
Although in both cases all screens are different sizes and i have a kvm set up at home which allows me to switch the two larger (but still differently sized) screens to show my raspberry pi desktop or my wifes laptop for when she works from home where she has a 13 setup.
Edit: Actually i completely forgot, i have a small kvm at work too with a pi500 connected dual booting raspian and android. I use raspian to play classic dungeon keeper (with keeperfx mod) on my breaks, and android just to mess around and see what its capable of.
I have a 6 and an 11.
10 is eve online multibox .. anything with 3 or more really
To me 7, 10, and 14 are the only ones that are totally unhinged.
What's gis? Cos apparently I'm one.
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Wut….?
were gis'ers!
Now gith...
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As a GIS tech, there's one missing - the laptop next to an ultrawide. Optional normal monitor to the side :P
But yes, as a former weather forecaster, the 4 in a square is insane and unfortunately it was necessary on bad weather days. At one of my locations, we also had the PC hooked up to a television running behind us and had a separate real time data monitor to the side. So... Yeah.
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GIS as in geographic information systems?
Gastro-intestinal system
Girls in socks
Look, I'm not here to GIS anything. That's my pinball monitor.
I'm not even on the chart
Those characters in your desktop seem awfully gleeful at your future neck ache.
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What's GIS
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
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8 is just CCTV cameras
Mine is not here. Ultrawide, with regular above it
You know where you belong
In the normal part of the diagram?
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I have one thats not represented here. Im fairly sure it belongs on the lower right.
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