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Everyone on the teams at my last 3 jobs has preferred a single large 4k display to alternatives. The ability to have 3-4 columns of code, as well as more lines
by chisleu 9y ago
Everyone on the teams at my last 3 jobs has preferred a single large 4k display to alternatives. The ability to have 3-4 columns of code, as well as more lines of code per column, has been invaluable for productivity.
It is very often that I find myself debugging or reading code for the first time and need to dive into several layers of code. Having it all side by side helps tremendously.
YMMV
- always_good 9y agoThe other nice thing about a single, large monitor is that it maps to the same workflow / muscle memory you'd use on your laptop. Switching between a laptop and multi-monitor setup was a bit comical for me despite trying it for a month. Even something as simple as alt-tab focusing a window that's not on the expected screen would slow me down. It wasn't for me. And my productivity improved once I moved back to a single 26in monitor.
- pmarreck 9y agoI now prefer UWQHD to my 4k monitor. It's like having two screens side by side without a seam.
- octorian 9y agoAround my office, we have two common setups. A large 30" display (16:10), or a super-wide curved display. The super-wide is way too short, vertically, that I have no interest in using one. I actually have two of those 30" displays on my desk. My approach is do to most of my work on the primary, and to shove some chat windows, log windows, etc, to the secondary. So I'm really using all of one display, and maybe half of the other. (Of course once displays get this big, the other half of the secondary display is too far from my field of view anyways.)