I'm kind 6. Two regular monitors and one large TV.
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I'm #13 but the laptop's in between monitors. Does that count as mental illness?
Sorry, yes...
I'm 5, because I'm writing and reading a lot. It makes no sense to have a horizontal screen for text.
I am #6.
I'm #6
I'm none of these. I have two normal and one rotated 90 degrees for the odd legal sized document that gets scanned in. When I was doing a lot of data entry in one of my jobs, it helped.
#3 is also dumb. Can’t do a single thing right in front of you, the thing is always off to one side or the other. Just commit to #5 if you want two monitors, or do what I’ve also done where my laptop fits underneath my main monitor(only applicable if you are tall enough to warrant such a high monitor placement).
I'm none of these.
One large center monitor, a smaller 1080p to the left and right, and above the center large one for a total of four.
Perfect for being a DM.

This is my mental illness, I change, rearrange, add, and substract screens constantly in my array. It's mostly for leaving ambient video playing in the background at my house, kinda like a little zen garden. I dream of programming all the TVs at a night club.
I got five computers in the array when this pic was taken. Three 2012 MacBook Pros, one on MacOS 10.15 Catalina, one on Windows 10, and one on Mint. Down low I have two gaming PCs, a 2014 build running Fedora and a 2017 build on Ubuntu.
You can't see my face but I'm cheesing so hard, this was one of the more ridiculous arrangements I've set up. I will use between three and seven screens at once on a normal day, but eight was an accomplishment lol
This is dope.
Is this my sign to get in to GIS?
Do you like maps?
More importantly, do you like doing the work of a fullstack developer but getting paid and treated like a barely-tier 2 support desk person?
Whenever I play D&D, I turn into the mapmaker. Send help.
YT search: "QGIS Fantasy Maps"
My DM's gonna love it when I start asking about elevation changes in more specific detail.
For work use I’m #13, except I remove the keyboard, put the laptop in front to use that keyboard, then center the monitors behind it.
For personal use, I’m #3
I have a CRT and a standard flat screen where am on this?
What's GIS
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Interesting... still works without the new fangled fancy databases.
It's databases all the way down, brother.
geographic information system
I'm not even on the chart

Those characters in your desktop seem awfully gleeful at your future neck ache.
11, and accurate. The only thing that stopped me was running out of display ports on my graphics card
What's gis? Cos apparently I'm one.
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
As a GIS tech, there's one missing - the laptop next to an ultrawide. Optional normal monitor to the side :P
But yes, as a former weather forecaster, the 4 in a square is insane and unfortunately it was necessary on bad weather days. At one of my locations, we also had the PC hooked up to a television running behind us and had a separate real time data monitor to the side. So... Yeah.
id argue that laptop + screen and mousekeyboard is normie.
I have a software repo with multiple files that are over 5000 lines, IG wouldn't fit on 10 monitors. I may concede my predicesors who made it this way have a mental illness, but I have to get work done, and it requires reading that file on an appropriately large monitor.
I daydream of #16
I've worked on a reverse #10 before (i.e. vertical monitor in the middle, surrounded by two landscape monitors)
Apparently Linux Torvalds works on dual 6k monitors
I have one thats not represented here. Im fairly sure it belongs on the lower right.

Your office needs some art good goddamn, sick set up though.
Look, I'm not here to GIS anything. That's my pinball monitor.
I did theatre shit and qlab on a vertical ultrawide is a dream. I never gave up that layout.