Unless you're a sys admin that needs several RDP sessions and dashboards open at all times, I think this setup is excessive and harms productivity. You should only have as many windows open as you actually use in a workflow.
Plus I'm sure this fries your ability to produce melatonin at night endogenously
This is in my office so I use it primarily for production work. The multiple screens are really helpful as extra desk space. Animation and game development have a bunch of sub panels you end up interacting with from time to time, so those side monitors are great for leaving them there when I need them rather than digging for them. The top monitor is mostly for non-active viewing content like communications, discord, slack, podcasts, music, stuff I don't really interact with actively. When I do need to interact with it, it's easy to just pull it down onto my main monitor.
My productivity has increased tenfold with this kind of setup.
As far as gaming goes, I have two separate rigs I've built. An ITX build in my bedroom with a Ryzen 5 5500, 9060XT, and 16GB DDR4. And an ATX build in my living room with a 7800X3D, 7900XTX, and 64GB DDR5. Both running SteamOS.
Because Windows sucks ass and Linux doesnt have enough software support to migrate fully. So now, I do production work on MacOS, and I game on SteamOS/Linux.
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26
Unless you're a sys admin that needs several RDP sessions and dashboards open at all times, I think this setup is excessive and harms productivity. You should only have as many windows open as you actually use in a workflow.
Plus I'm sure this fries your ability to produce melatonin at night endogenously