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I need 3 monitors or I am crippled, and the god awful alt+tab management of MacOS which is imposed on me contributes a lot to this need. And to be fair, you ca

I need 3 monitors or I am crippled, and the god awful alt+tab management of MacOS which is imposed on me contributes a lot to this need. And to be fair, you can tell me anything you want, I will not believe that you are as efficient with a single monitor as with at least 2. I used a single one for 6 months in 2020 and I lost a lot of productivity. Actually I do not believe it to the point that if I was in a position of power over someone who refuses to use more than one, I would get rid of them.

satysin 4y ago
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- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  Looks good, thanks!
backendEngineer 4y ago
I only have 2 currently at my new job, I have all the logs of services in tmux in 6 to 8 splited panels on 1 screen and IDE on 2nd, I feel as if there is one missing were I can have documentation/wikis/slack/jira etc. I think just using your eyes is faster than managing it on 1 screen but that's just how I'm used to it. Sadly most companies who are not solely into software developing have the same IT setup with 1-2 24 inch screens for the entire company. That's why I'm mostly in home office these days with my 4 screen setup.
sys_64738 4y ago
> Actually I do not believe it to the point that if I was in a position of power over someone who refuses to use more than one, I would get rid of them. You also need to be considerate of other people’s habits. When you typically think that your way is the ‘right way’ then you’re usually wrong.
friend_and_foe 4y ago
I am more efficient with a single monitor, because I use a tiling window manager. All my windows get laid out, there's no dead space for a wallpaper, I dont have to full screen everything and drag stuff around with a mouse, and each workspace functions for me the way each monitor does for you, I can have up to 10. The difference is, where you'd turn your head, I hit a keyboard command super+<number>. You can only look at one monitor at a time, might as well reuse the hardware and save on money and waste. If you believe it so strongly that nothing can possibly change your mind your believe is irrational, doubly so considering you admit your choice of operating system gimps productivity yet you still choose to use it. If you'd fire someone for using a different workflow than you as a heuristic for their productivity you have no business managing people.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  > I am more efficient with a single monitor, because I use a tiling window manager. I just read a whole article (this one) about a guy that had to switch to a single monitor because switching to a tiling window manager made it hard to live with more than just 1 monitor, so allow me to doubt that your WM is actually increasing your efficiency. But even without that, no you are no. If you need to switch between virtual desktops to, for example, see the code and see the website renderer by the code, it is an highly inefficient process. So unless your single monitor happens to be a 44" 5K monitor, I would 100% fire you. > you admit your choice of operating system gimps productivity yet you still choose to use it I think the word "imposed" made it pretty clear that I actually do not have the choice.
  - friend_and_foe 4y ago
    So you're being forced to use a workflow you don't like that gimps your productivity, and you still would force guys to use workflows they may not like? That's worse than choosing it man. Switching workspaces is as easy as moving your eyeballs, at least in a tiling wm. It's no different workflow wise, except it costs hundreds of dollars less. You can literally only look at one monitor at a time. Very, very few people actually have a need for more than one. The majority of people using more than one monitor are doing it because it makes them feel like hackerman, because their boss imposes a workflow and environment on them, or because they can't be bothered to try to make their environment more efficient.

satysin 4y ago

Sounds like you could benefit from AltTab https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ It's a free, open source alt+tab replacement for macOS. Highly customisable and works well.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
Looks good, thanks!

backendEngineer 4y ago

I only have 2 currently at my new job, I have all the logs of services in tmux in 6 to 8 splited panels on 1 screen and IDE on 2nd, I feel as if there is one missing were I can have documentation/wikis/slack/jira etc. I think just using your eyes is faster than managing it on 1 screen but that's just how I'm used to it. Sadly most companies who are not solely into software developing have the same IT setup with 1-2 24 inch screens for the entire company. That's why I'm mostly in home office these days with my 4 screen setup.

sys_64738 4y ago

> Actually I do not believe it to the point that if I was in a position of power over someone who refuses to use more than one, I would get rid of them. You also need to be considerate of other people’s habits. When you typically think that your way is the ‘right way’ then you’re usually wrong.

friend_and_foe 4y ago

I am more efficient with a single monitor, because I use a tiling window manager. All my windows get laid out, there's no dead space for a wallpaper, I dont have to full screen everything and drag stuff around with a mouse, and each workspace functions for me the way each monitor does for you, I can have up to 10. The difference is, where you'd turn your head, I hit a keyboard command super+<number>. You can only look at one monitor at a time, might as well reuse the hardware and save on money and waste. If you believe it so strongly that nothing can possibly change your mind your believe is irrational, doubly so considering you admit your choice of operating system gimps productivity yet you still choose to use it. If you'd fire someone for using a different workflow than you as a heuristic for their productivity you have no business managing people.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
> I am more efficient with a single monitor, because I use a tiling window manager. I just read a whole article (this one) about a guy that had to switch to a single monitor because switching to a tiling window manager made it hard to live with more than just 1 monitor, so allow me to doubt that your WM is actually increasing your efficiency. But even without that, no you are no. If you need to switch between virtual desktops to, for example, see the code and see the website renderer by the code, it is an highly inefficient process. So unless your single monitor happens to be a 44" 5K monitor, I would 100% fire you. > you admit your choice of operating system gimps productivity yet you still choose to use it I think the word "imposed" made it pretty clear that I actually do not have the choice.
- friend_and_foe 4y ago
  So you're being forced to use a workflow you don't like that gimps your productivity, and you still would force guys to use workflows they may not like? That's worse than choosing it man. Switching workspaces is as easy as moving your eyeballs, at least in a tiling wm. It's no different workflow wise, except it costs hundreds of dollars less. You can literally only look at one monitor at a time. Very, very few people actually have a need for more than one. The majority of people using more than one monitor are doing it because it makes them feel like hackerman, because their boss imposes a workflow and environment on them, or because they can't be bothered to try to make their environment more efficient.