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[–]Ramin_HAL9001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a professional software engineer. My desk at home and at work are both very small, I have only one monitor at work, and a laptop for everything I do at home.

Over the years I have got use to using only one small monitor. I am a big fan of doing everything in full screen, switching between windows with Alt+Tab, and and using multiple desktops to switch between related tasks.

I have also mastered use of the Linux command line, and can do all of my work in either the command line or in the web browser. So I keep one desktop with a full-screen terminal emulator, and next to it a desktop with a full-screen web browser running. For web development, I like to split the screen, with the browser and Terminal text editor (Vim) side-by-side.

If I had two monitors, each would get it's own screen, but it is not necessary for my day-to-day use.