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I never felt like I needed anything more than a 13" laptop screen. I have a 25" monitor on my desk and I almost never use it for work. I mainly leverage multiple workspaces, I think it's faster / more convenient to do Meta key + 1,2,3,4... than turn my head / eyes around between monitors. Some OSes make it sloppy though, last time I checked Mac OS has an annoying delay when switching workspaces that you can't get rid of.

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I have been playing with KDE/wayland lately and after turning off all animations I am really liking it.

I come from i3. I am missing the independent virtual desktop / monitor mapping. But this can be somewhat worked out with pinning. I often only display one desktop on the second monitor. If I even use one. As I also find switching workspace is just much faster than turning my head!

What I am missing the most is the scratch space. Where you can shortcut windows in and out of existence. But I think this can also be worked around by using an extra workspace, and pinning windows via shortcuts.

IIRC You can get rid of the switch delay using Yabai[1] but you will need to disable SIP which may be a no go if you have work assigned MacBook

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

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