re: I consider myself a tech guy but for some reason I cant figure out how to have 2 monitors

Your neck will be proper fricked. I'm not kidding, as a dual monitor user for a very, long time. You have TD topic entries over three feet from the middle of screen 3.

I would suggest getting a monitor mount where you can put the centre line of monitors 1+3 directly above the centre of the laptop monitor. Another option is just stick the laptop behind both monitors and ignore the fact that it exists unless you need to unplug it. You still have a horribly wide viewing angle. Yet another option (which you won't like, since you've already splashed the cash on the monitors) is using virtual desktops on a single monitor.

It can be one thing to have Netflix or Hulu on one monitor that you can more listen to and glance at occasionally, or have a bunch of widgets, iTunes, or process monitors on your non primary monitor, but that doesn't appear to be the use case.

Look at either big monitor. Imagine yourself editing a 30 slide PowerPoint deck while having your head turned nearly 40 degrees in one direction or another while your keyboard is right in front of you.

I just use a 49” Samsung Odyssey. Plenty of real estate for docs, spreadsheets and email.

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yeah the ergonomics aren't top shelf

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This is what happens when threads go on for more than 24 hours, I thought you were OP, since I had it bookmarked to my latest comment. (BTW, is there an EPL forum I can't see somewhere here?)

There is too much tech info that is about to be discussed, but it may be useful for someone else.

I was dual widescreen (sub 30") for a while. But I had a work laptop I had to use for certain tasks. Space became a problem. I moved the "submit timesheet and expenses" laptop to the desk behind me for months. I jury rigged a way to run a RHEL VM with the expense/timesheet/HR type apps in Hyper-V on my main desktop (could have done it in VirtualBox too). Laptop got put away until I traveled. Using Virtual Desktops I set up work/play configs that I could click through nearly instantly. Desktop 1, personal BS. Desktop 2, Outlook 365 for work with the RHEL VM instance running. Get an alert on the phone that I get a Slack message, swap desktops from play to work, badda bing. Respond to work stuff, switch back and return to life.

Ended up giving the second widescreen to ex-wife to use in her office, as even 28" is enough for me to spread stuff around at default font size settings.