• Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 days ago

    Modeling and CAD generally require up to 4 monitors.

    1. App
    2. App submenus and subwindows
    3. Redlines/markups/notes
    4. Optional. Emails, file browsing, screen share, manuals.

    Though I’d say working with complicated apps regularly will give you a mental illness, so fair.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      One of us. In my old job I ran two gaming rigs for processing on a KVM switch. GIS is all about the rig. Only need one or two screens lol. 13 btw lmao.

  • Gumus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 days ago

    1000015003

    Since then I’ve upgraded the laptop so it actually runs on all screens. And I can switch to the desktop with a KVM.

  • drath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    4 days ago

    What’s wrong with #8? Looks like a normal trader setup to me.

    My setup is off the charts, tho, as usual.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • MycelialMass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Can someone explain to me how to connect so many monitors? Like I had two HDMI ports and I think thats pretty normal? How are people doing 3+ monitors?

    • spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      You can daisy chain displayport, as long as you have the bandwidth for it. I think the real issue is not how many monitors, but just how many pixels you’re trying to drive. Since secondary monitors are typically 1080p, the whole collection of them should be the same as a 4k main monitor.

    • KmlSlmk64@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      You need a graphics card or smth to even have the ability to have >3 displays. Some Macbooks have a 2 screen limit, so if you want to use only external monitors you have to close the lid. PC graphics generally allow at least 3 screens. But thunderbolt usb is an option.

      • MycelialMass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I have a tower pc with graphics card, dual booting windows and linux so in theory I can put 3 on here? Interesting

        • KmlSlmk64@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Linus Tech Tips did a video on having windows alongside macOS on the smae machine. They did it by having both as VMs on a barebones linux machines. Theoretically you could then dedicate each one of the operating systems to an OS, and run linux, windows, and mac side by side. My guess kn feasibility: very hard.

          https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    I’m none of these. I have two normal and one rotated 90 degrees for the odd legal sized document that gets scanned in. When I was doing a lot of data entry in one of my jobs, it helped.