I have a two monitor set up going right now hooked up to a dual display KVM switch. Sadly, a recent power outage has caused some finicky behavior in either my KVM or my secondary monitor, since it comes in and out. Will get around to debugging my setup once I have some time this holiday season, but I was also debating on switching to a single ultrawide monitor setup. I’m a software engineer by trade, and I get the most use out of the second monitor while working. However, when I’m doing literally anything else, the second monitor just tends to be Spotify, discord, or some background video or podcast.
What’s your preference? Anyone switch from one to the other? How do you use your setup?
I had a 3 monitor setup for years until the primary monitor and its replacement crapped out one month. I switched to a 49” ultrawide, got a tiling window manager and I’ve been loving it! The window manager lets me size windows to fit what best suits me for each. I’ll never go back if I don’t have to
Windows has a tool called FancyZones in their PowerToys tool Link and I have been happy with the results so far.
I don’t think I have a preference between an ultrawide and a multi monitor setup, I actually currently have an ultrawide and then another monitor 😂. It is a cheaper dell ultrawide and I should have just spent more and got a better one but oh well.
My issue with multimonitor setups is the bezels kind of ruin things. If you get monitors with thin bezels, and get some good monitor mounts you’re probably fine.
Multimonitor setups would also probably be cheaper than an ultrawide with similar size.
That’s promising! I was looking at 34" ultrawides when thinking about my ubuntu + i3 setup, I didn’t even consider that 49" was an option. Is there anything that you think the dual monitor setup did better? Or were your concerns solved by the tiling wm?
Nope! The wm solved everything for my use cases