This seems like a needless widely sweeping generalization. Maybe 3+ monitors won't solve your problems, but they certainly help mine. The main issue I see peopl

This seems like a needless widely sweeping generalization. Maybe 3+ monitors won't solve your problems, but they certainly help mine. The main issue I see people having with multiple and/or large monitors is the window manager. I must admit I find it extremely frustrating to use multiple (large) monitors with anything but a tiling window manager. The Windows partition on my home desktop sits idle basically for that reason alone. I tried Mosaico (http://www.soulidstudio.com/ http://www.soulidstudio.com/) for a while, but even with the paid pro version, it's a poor imitation at best. I suppose my view on this might be a bit different since the majority of my work is sysadmin/devops, but I do a fair amount of dev work as well, and am far, far less productive without my setup. I pretty much live on the cli so I suppose that might also be a factor. I like having all necessary information out in front of me, just a glance and possibly a keypress away. At work I have 2 30 inch 1600p monitors stacked in landscape, and 2 24 inch 1080p monitors in portrait on either side: _________ | | ____| |____ | |_________| | | | | | | | | | |____|_________|____| The left monitor I have 8 terminals open, middle top is monitoring/graphs/alerts, middle bottom is irssi (slack, irc, gtalk, etc), firefox, and another terminal, right monitor is 4 wide terminals. At home its a bit simpler, 1 39 inch 4k with a 1440 27" in portrait to the left. My setup isn't nearly as static as my work setup, and I change my column/row layout and size depending on what I'm doing. Any time I get on a computer with a single, small monitor, like a laptop, I find myself barely productive compared to my desktop setups. I tile on my thinkpad and chromebook as well, but it's far more restrictive and mostly in separate tags/workspaces instead of all out in front of me. Although not having a full keyboard probably contributes to that as well. I have keybindings set up in awesome to move/swap/resize the windows and layout and I can get everything perfectly positioned much faster than in a normal window manager. Moving between windows is a matter of Super + hjkl and changing where I'm looking. No messing with alt-tab and trying to find the window I need. I pretty much have keybindings for every operation possible, and rarely move from home row. I honestly don't know how I used to manage to using floating window managers without constant frustration. Awesome has probably been a bigger productivity boost for me than anything else I've done. Apologies for the rant, but articles and blanket statements like this just rub me the wrong way. "This doesn't work for me/I can't get used to this/I wasn't willing to try the available tools, etc. therefore this is bad and you shouldn't do it" comes off very arrogant and dishonest to me. Not everyone has the same workflow, not everyone focuses the same way, and your way of doing things is not the One True Way.