I’ve always changed tabs, or at the very most, copy-pasted. I don’t use split-screen though, as I find it too overwhelming and cramped for me. I’ve never found a reason to have 2 monitors.

Wait, if one monitor is “more than enough”, then wouldn’t that imply that ‘enough’ is <1? Is my mans out here running a desktop without a screen?

If 1 is more than “enough”, how many screens are enough then? Technically, if you never need any visual feedback from what you’re doing with keyboard and mouse, then zero screens would be enough.

Should I upvote because it is an unpopular opinion or down vote because he is wrong? I know it’s the former but I really don’t want to!

Funny how you seem to believe that “checking stock prices” is a good use of a whole monitor but don’t seem to see how literally any other task could benefit from having reference material up on a second monitor.

It kinda makes me disturbed to have something bright in the corner of my eye when I concentrate to read text. And even though I use tiling WM, most of the time I only have one window at once, rarely two windows split horizontally, but no more.

Imagine you have to cross examine 3 papers on your computer, you have to take notes and you have to input information on an excel document for your research paper thats on another word document. Try doing this on 1 screen.

Once I went double monitor, I can’t see myself falling back to a single monitor. I’ve used a single monitor for a good decade and a half before toying with double monitors. I just like being able to have things on one monitor and other things on another. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a programmer-specific thing. I now reflect back and hated the idea of having to manage and check so many things while under one monitor. Things would be blinking, but oh wait, I’m gaming, oh wait, I’m browsing too and it’s just too much.