I do the same and have triple displays that is placed with ergonomics in mind, so workspace is like 3*n mostly.
There's no drawback for me except probably terrible carbon foot print..
There's no drawback for me except probably terrible carbon foot print..
3 monitors is just a workaround for a workflow problem that i3 can solve.
> I do the same and have triple displays that is placed with ergonomics in mind,
meaning that the author uses both i3 and triple monitors.
I use a laptop and two 27" externals, not with i3 but with an auto-positioning Hammerspoon that has a similar effect.
When I'm on smaller or fewer displays I can't fit everything I want up simultaneously.
Granted, I relatively often have a mobile app codebase, a backend API codebase used by the mobile app, terminal sessions pertaining to each of those codebases, and documentation for the tools used in either or both projects up all at once.
My eyesight isn't great, so all of those have fairly large font sizes.
Not every project needs that much context. When I'm hacking on my Emacs config, a two-pane split is about I can ask for (and one will do the job just fine).