> Somehow, we convinced ourselves that turning our necks back and forth is superior to simply resizing windows to smaller sizes so they can be next to each other on a single screen, allowing us to move our eyes quickly without risking a neck injury.
This is basically the same as having multiple screens.
I think where screens help is when they let you avoid a context switch.
So for me if I'm modifying a class and I have to edit class.h, class.cc, as well as wherever it goes I like to have them all open at once so I don't have to hold that context in my head.
> Somehow, we convinced ourselves that turning our necks back and forth is superior to simply resizing windows to smaller sizes so they can be next to each other on a single screen, allowing us to move our eyes quickly without risking a neck injury.
This is basically the same as having multiple screens.
I think where screens help is when they let you avoid a context switch.
So for me if I'm modifying a class and I have to edit class.h, class.cc, as well as wherever it goes I like to have them all open at once so I don't have to hold that context in my head.