My GIS rig is different than any of those.

Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.

Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.

I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it's a big TV on the wall of my office that's usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I'm meeting with people in my office.

I've seen a coder have exactly two vertical monitors.

I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.

Get bent, fucking casuals!

#7 is pretty common for radiologists

GIS? Graphical, IT and what?

Half of those setups make zero practical sense and are only there because someone thought symmetry would look cool.

Either one secondary monitor that can be pivoted 90° or two, one being horizontal, the other vertical...

I have a CRT and a standard flat screen where am on this?

5 but mostly because I like looking at pretty jwst pictures when I die in a video game. Technically it's for my music player and monitoring torrents...

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

6 but they're all different sizes. One I've had since 2016, one was $20 from goodwill, and the other I found on the side of the road.

I'm #13 but the laptop's in between monitors. Does that count as mental illness?

I want to meet the man who uses 7, but 14 scares me.

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.

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.

Can someone explain to me how to connect so many monitors? Like I had two HDMI ports and I think thats pretty normal? How are people doing 3+ monitors?

I have 2 monitors + laptop and my setup isn't even represented here (29" 16:9 and 34" 21:9)

11. Need to observe stuff while gaming or coding or whatever.

Pronounced jizz in case there's any doubt.