Oh no
Biblically accurate battlestation.
Not enough eyes
I believe the appropriate pronunciation is "Muahahahaha!".
Evil goatee can be added for maximum effect.
just call me the BBEG
My god.....
jesus, and i thought my dual laptop setup was crazy
why do you have 3 laptops
I have 1 daily driver (personal) and 1 work.
The other is an old one that runs twitch / Spotify/ youtube while I work on a separate pair of headphones so the work productivity monitoring software doesn't pick it up.
I'm hybrid so I have to take the work computer into the office once a week and on work travel trips
My daily driver also has to be portable so I can play games next to my wife on the sofa sometimes, or I also use it for video, voice over and music editing so being able to move it also helps.
Also I sometimes use the twitch/spotify/youtube laptop to show sheet music while I record on my daily driver without worrying about fan noise.
I don’t know which one I am:
Clearly working for a pyramid scheme.
I use Vert Horiz Vert. Like the letter H.
Come at me bros.
I have to know what you’re doing with this if it’s not, like, watching security footage. I can see a number of uses but all of them(that I can think of) are productivity based and are the kind of thing where you never really spend long periods of time on any one screen.
This is my work-from-home setup.
2 is my laptop opened all the way and sitting in a vertical stand, so the screen is above and a little behind the other monitors, and the laptop camera is top center. I put Teams up there, so I can notice if I’m being messaged.
1 and 3 are on a dual arm stand. They are where I do my actual work. All kinds of stuff.
Mine is like this but upside down (2 is a laptop) and with a large gap between the top two. Sort of Mickey mouse head style, but all the same size. I primarily use 2 and 3.
Probably chaotic evil for these as well, since they didn’t even make the chart.
Neutral Good here but I would do this if I had my monitors on arms so I could raise them above my open laptop screen; I don’t like having a gap or having the screens blocked by the laptop.
Chaotic neutral. Vertical monitor is best code review monitor.
It's also best for documentation!
And reading comic books
What is it considered when my side monitor is about 10% obscured by my main one because my monitor arm doesn't open wide enough?
And then there’s this hilarious thing from Swordfish:
I unironically love that thing from Swordfish even if deep down I know it is dumb.
The real chaotic evil:
I don't know, I think that sort of insanity transcends alignment.
Chaotic neutral is, unironically, the best for a lot of work related tasks. It takes up less space on a desk and the vertical monitor just makes a lot of sense for reading Teams/Slack/whatever, answer emails, reading documents, etc.. I actually picked it up from a friend who uses a vertical curved monitor and he said it was great for coding related work. Don’t skimp on the resolution, though, ‘cause you’ll probably want 1440p to make sure the words are clear. 4k is fine but probably overkill and needlessly expensive.
When I worked from home I had my personal 34” curved screen in the middle of my desk for AutoCAD and a vertical monitor from work fit perfectly between the main monitor and the edge of the desk. T’was brilliant. And I’m tall so my main screen is high enough up that my laptop fits underneath and I can watch shows and stuff
Verti-hori for lyyyfe.
What does mine count as?
Tie fighter gang.
The best setup!
This might be my ideal setup.
Based because Beigguang
Chaotic bad
Don't @ me, there's no going back
Tiling WM turns the 21:9 into 2 or 3 panes perfect for reading
I hope that SpaceX capsule brings you home safely.
For the first time ever, I'm apparently lawful evil.
But... why? How is that better than just putting them next to each other?
I have my comp in a small nook in the side of my bedroom that's supposed to be where a dresser lives. Couldn't fit two monitors side by side easily so I put two ultrawides, one on top of the other. Works out really nice tbh.
Back when native resolution was 4:3 it made more sense to have them side by side, but 16:9 it just makes more sense to have them vertically stacked.
Also, my setup is a 50" 4k TV for the top screen and a 43" 1080p for the bottom, I'd have to look sooo faaar over to see the other screen that I honestly don't have the wall space in my room for it. I am generally reclined on a couch while using it, my head resting is centered on the upper screen with either a reference of whatever I'm working on the lower, though usually it will be a twitch stream I'm tangentially interested in but only need to take a look at it on occasion if I head something interesting happening.
I do not care for this slander. Vertical screens are used for working on documents or specially for log and debugging visualization.
I'm not on that list LMAO.
Because y'all ask, my monitors are offset diagonally (instead of horizontal or vertical) my main monitor is 4x the size of the other.
Was lawful good until I made the switch to 49" ultrawide.
Only VR goggles for you, eh?
I don't subscribe to your morality. I have my second monitor on the floor under the desk.I often unplug it and plug in a projector that's pointing at the wall to my left for YouTube while I work. Haha!
I used to be chaotic good for some time before I decided I needed the desk space more.
I'm lawful neutral, except the monitor is portrait
Based
What if I have 3 monitors but one is sideways?
I think Chaotic Evil is the catch-all for complicated cases like that
My case
I couldn't fit a second monitor on my desk if it weren't for chaotic neutral orientation.
All of the screens are working now, this was an old laptop that couldn't handle that many outputs. I've got a webcam and a small mirror in the hole between the top screens so I can see if anyone entered the room behind me.
This is a beautiful setup
My setup isn't on this.... I'm beyond chaotic evil.
My work setup is six displays, four are 1080p, one is 1440p and the last one is the smallest diagonally, but 4K.
None of them are vertical right now though.
Yeah, I have:
27" 1440p in the middle
24" 1080p to the right
21" 1080p on the upper left
22" 1050p 16:10 on the lower leftAll from different manufacturers, two of them bought broken and resurrected. I call it the "chaotic evil necromancer setup". None of them in portrait though.
For me, the 1440p is also in the middle, I think mine is a 25", I forget, I've owned most of them for a very long time.
1080p 23" I believe, both left, right, above, and top right. So it's pretty even all around my 1440 main screen.
Top left is actually the built in display of the laptop, which is on a stand to prop it up so it system is basically flat/vertical. It's aspect is more square than 16:10... I think. In any case, it's that aspect ratios version of 4k, but the screen on the laptop is easily the smallest physical size display and it's furthest away since it's on the laptop, which is on a stand, behind my monitor arms for everything else. So it's set back from the rest of the screens by about 3-4".
That's not to mention my KVM, which is triple display, so my 1440p display, and the left+right 1080 displays can be switched to my personal rig, and the two 1080's above (middle and right) are on a USB to display port adapter by USB through the KVM. So my personal computer has 5 displays, and my work laptop has 5 + the built in display.
I got a portable display for my work PC since I'm going on site to a customer site later this week, and I plugged it in to this cacophony (on my work PC), and when I set windows to extend my desktop to it, one of my other displays turned off.... It seems that I've hit my monitor limit for this system.
It's not surprising given that they're almost all connected by displaylink either through the docking station or by the USB to display port adapter, and I'm pretty sure this new display also uses displaylink. Oh well. I can't seem to make it worse for now. If I get any additional screens I'll have to get a thunderbolt egpu for my work system, something I'm already considering since I've noticed frame drops on some of my screens occasionally, which I believe is a bandwidth issue for the displaylink on the USB bus. In that case I'd want to replace my displays on the dock with the connections from the egpu, so only my top displays are connected by displaylink. By doing that, I can easily switch between computers by my existing KVM and get the five screens on both systems. I also suspect that the USB on one of my systems needs to be improved since my personal system also has issues with the displaylink displays, though the three KVM switched displays are to an Nvidia desktop GPU. USB upgrade first on my personal desktop, then I'll think about the egpu again.... Bluntly, I don't need the graphics horsepower on my work system, so it would not be a good investment to beef it up more than it is.
My work setup is chaotic evil except I don't have the left vertical monitor but all 4 of my monitors are different sizes.
My home setup is just chaotic good.
Same here, I don't get why it's chaotic evil. I just buy one monitor at a time, so they can never match.
If I read correctly then I have the same setup as you except it's mirrored and the both middle monitors are 21:9.
I count as chaotic evil and embrace it. I have a place for whatever I need to do.
At home I'm a true neutral, and at work a combination of neutral good and chaotic neutral. And when I bring my work laptop home I'm lawful neutral.
Just need to work on neutral evil, then I'll be all neutral.
"What turns a man neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
- Zapp Brannigan
chaotic good
I achieve lawful good while being true neutral by using a single ultra wide curved monitor.
I used to be closer to CE with my 3-screen, phone on boom-arm ass setup. Now have reverted to CG since I was getting a bit too excited.
I'm neutral good with my laptop underneath the center of the two monitors.
Lawful neutral good
Neutral or chaotic good. The screens are close in size. I don't think they're identical though, so probably chaotic.
I'm CN after dipping into LE for a year or two. I should combine them into two stacked with a vertical
My old Dell laptop got a dark display corner and a few times of usage later it went completely and permanently dark. So I used an external screen only until I got my new laptop.
Lawful chaotic?CG personal computer, LN work computer. Same large monitor for both
I got like a mirrored chaotic neutral going on, evil?
Nah, if you decode the lawful scale and the good scale to a number and go with 1 0 -1 for each then you reversed a -1/0 and that's obviously a 1/0. So you're lawful neutral!
I think?
Edit: tried to fix the scale names.
I appreciate the clarification! Lol
In the days of 1024x768, I found turning my one screen over to 768x1024 was great for coding!
It's a bit problematic to run websites on a vertical 1080p display, since it seems that most websites default to around 1200 or 1280 wide, so you end up having to horizontally scroll. It's problematic.
IDK why it's so difficult to find 1920x1200 displays so I can put a new vertical display on my system.... It's literally the only reason I don't have a vertical display on my system right now.
I'm chaotic good at home, chaotic neutral at work. I usually also have an ipad propped up on the left, so I'm not sure how that plays in.
I have mine set up like lawful good, but the middle one is work, and the side two are personal, and when I'm not working, I move the side two to completely block the middle one. What's my alignment?
true neutral :)
I'm LN but they're in a LE configuration because my desk has a little raised platform
I'm in 'chaotic good' territory, with the smaller secondary monitor on the left, and games fucking refuse to launch on the larger monitor despite it being set as the primary. Even doing the Win+Shift+Arrow trick to force it over to the right, it will pop back to the left as soon as I Alt+Tab away, or sometimes even during the transition from the main menu to loading the actual game.
Tried switching the ports around to change which monitor is #1 vs #2; I've even upgraded to a new GPU... nope, shit always launches on the tiny monitor.
Ready to throw them both away and just buy two matching monitors, but y'know... money...
What window manager do you use? Many have an option to overrule what the window wants to do and force it to do what the WM wants it to do. This might solve your problem.
True Neutral. My wife thinks I'm weird.
I used to have a chaotic evil setup. I was writing code for some AIO PCs used as kiosks on the shop floor, so I needed to test the code on one of the devices. At the height of things, as we were transitioning to a new system, I had two of the kiosks (running different OSs), my laptop screen, and two external monitors, all of them running software that let my mouse and keyboard treat them as one computer.
Used to be lawful good, but have switched to lawful evil and my neck is thankful for it.
Neutral good, dual 32" using hyprland. Most efficient setup I've had in my 8 years in IT/DevOps.
TN. Just one big ass 4k
IMO anything that makes a rectangle with no gaps is lawful good. That includes top left, top middle, middle, bottom left, and bottom middle.
not sure where my setup stands, i got my ipad in portrait, in the centre of the desk on a stand, with two 14 inch laptops on either side, one phone on the left side of the left laptop, another phone either wedged between the two laptops, or inconveniently chucked in the middle of the giant mousepad.
im thinking somewhere chaotic
Typically NG, rarely CN. I actually only have two monitors because one died and I needed a new one in short order. The one that died was repaired free under warranty so now I have two.
I'm neutral good on the left and neutral evil on the right.. Not sure where this falls
chaotic neutral
The vertical feature in windows was the best thing Microsoft ever did. My ideal set up is two stacked horizontally oriented screens with a vertical screen either side. Documents, code and web pages are tall, simulation diagrams and PowerPoints, etc, are wide. Fight me.
That is exactly what my setup has been for years, except I now also have an open laptop that shares two of the monitors. My two stacked monitors are ultrawides with my portrait mode screen directly on the left and right.
Chaotic Neutral + laptop screen still open? summon Man-servant Hecubus!
I guess that makes us screen-siblings, or screen-cousins, perhaps. Maybe we should print up some T-shirts celebrating The One True Way. Maybe some flyers for a recruitment-drive.
I have three monitors. Two 27" in neutral good configuration, then a third smaller 4:3 monitor (not sure what size off the top of my head) in a chaotic good type setup, albeit on the left side, not the right.
My desktop machine can use all three, but the two main monitors are usually tuned to my work laptop.
True Neutral at home.
Chaotic Good at work because I need a second screen but can't get a matching screen yet.
vertical 24" on left. Horizontal 32" (gaming one) in middle. 2nd 24" on the right, horizontal
Also chaotic good. 27" standard monitor on the left, 24" cinema monitor on the right.
This is so evil that it goes far, far beyond chaotic evil and I hope bad things happen to whoever is responsible for this:
