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Ultrawide or multi-monitor setup? (self.battlestations)

submitted 11 months ago by casualhippo to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also do software. Went from a triple monitor (1080 portrait, 1440 landscape, 1080 portrait) to super ultra wide. The biggest reason was my work laptop only supports two 1440 or one 4k monitors so I use the ultra wide in picture by picture mode.

I miss the vertical space for reading documents but that's kind of it. There is enough horizontal space to have my work open with slack/email/whatever on the side since it's basically two monitors but without the bezel.

I've been enjoying the ultra wide way more when gaming vs the single 1440, by a lot. Don't think I could go back now however I play a lot of fps games that will use the whole monitor.

The only annoying thing is I need to switch to input mode whenever I switch computers but this might not apply to you if all devices can support the native resolution.

[–] casualhippo 1 points 11 months ago

Whoa I heard of picture in picture but not picture by picture. Interesting, that's a neat bit of info to try to get two monitors out of one ultrawide.