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Tangent: I am traveling at the moment and I miss my second monitor a lot.

It's like saying you don't need toilets when you can dig a hole in the ground and use leaves to wipe instead of toilet paper.

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You've not optimised your workflow for your environment, but instead it's the fault of the tools given to you for being too primitive? Come on.

I have optimised my workflow, I am still productive, but the second monitor still brings me joys that nothing else can.

Virtual Desktops are not a substitute to multiple monitors. With multiple monitors you can have several full screen windows open at the same time. Like coding in your main screen and seeing documentation/web browser in the other.

Contrary to popular belief, you cannot physically look at two screens at the same time.

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