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More than ten years working solely on a laptop (cloud system admin and programming). I don't miss the multiple monitors at my last f/t job -- I couldn't really
by gregjor 4y ago
More than ten years working solely on a laptop (cloud system admin and programming). I don't miss the multiple monitors at my last f/t job -- I couldn't really use all that space anyway, it was just distracting. I often work on my iPad (with keyboard). I like having just one thing in focus at a time, not a bunch of windows demanding my attention.
Because I travel a lot I have always used a 13" Macbook Air or a Chromebook of the same size, or the iPad. I spend most of my time going between the web browser and multiple ssh sessions (I use the screen utility for that). I feel as productive as the next person, sometimes more because I can start working seconds after I sit down, nothing to set up or plug in.
When I started my career programming a million years ago (late '70s) I used dumb terminals with 80x24 character displays, for a long time. Modern displays are so much better in every way I don't feel the need to keep adding more screen real estate. And I'm 62 years old with failing vision, which makes me scratch my head when programmers less than half my age complain about small screens. Programming mainly happens in the brain, not on the screen.