I’m definitely a fan of CachyOS. It’s fast and surprisingly easy to manage with their main screen, though I typically use yay for packaging,
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My setup 10 years ago
Then 5 years ago
I think I’m devolving! lol. I went from 2 full sized monitors, to 1 monitor + laptop display and now down to one 32" monitor. 
On a serious note, though, it was a conscious choice. I realized I was not using my 2nd monitor enough, probably 80/20 in usage time at best. So the decision was made to move to a larger 32" but single display with enough resolution that a vertical split would have very little impact on what’s visible in each window.
Current setup
Normally, Terminal would live in workspace 2, but here it’s tiled just as an example. I also have text scaling set to 1.08 (as you can see, quite large), so if your eyes are better than mine, the default smaller text would allow an even higher percentage of content/text to fit in each window. But 2k rez for sure allows a lot more text/content to fit.
For me, this is the trade-off. I lose a little dedicated screen space, but I gain something more practical: one display that’s being used 100% of the time, while still letting me work in side-by-side windows almost like having two monitors.
I also avoided an ultrawide monitor for a simple reason: it creates the same inefficiency I had before. Most of my time is spent in a single app per workspace, especially the browser, which just leaves large unused margins on either side. Terminal windows become unnecessarily wide, line length suffers, and even video content like YouTube ends up boxed in with empty black space on both sides. So, for my workflow, ultrawide feels like overkill that’s better suited to gaming than day-to-day work.
Edit:
Speaking of ultrawide monitors, check out Niri WM!
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What im currently on also working on getting a distro for my desktop to be able to dual boot just dont know which one to go for yet haha I’ve tried linux mint, fedora, and now Cachy
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I’ve updated my setup with Debian and I’m absolutely thrilled about it
I really love the logo: it reminds me of a bass clef, and as a musician, that instantly makes me feel at home 
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look absolutely beautiful!!!
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So nice with neofetch at term(used in xBSD) and Conky at antiX Systems.
I actually do the heavy lifting through TTYs where I have open SSH, XRDP, or UltraVNC sessions when configuring the servers. The graphical environment is mainly for managing email and administrative applications via digital certificates.
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I use Ubuntu 24.04 on a very low end laptop, 2010 Toshiba NB 305
My setup:
My desktop:
I have to tweak it, so it doesn’t lag too much, Even though opening the application takes a long time because I’m still using an HDD, I’m going to replace it with an SSD, Not too laggy unless you open a lot of apps (2gb ram), use XFCE or LXQt If you want to open the application without taking too long and with low RAM usage
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My work laptop:
My mediacenter:
My mediacenter has the old classic top panel, it is just hidden.
Both running Ubuntu-MATE 24.04 LTS
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A tale of 2 laptops, parts of the same family but these guys are NOT related 
A personal work unit and a throw in the bag whatever laptop. One likes life and colors and doesnt care much…the other one…troublemaker.
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62 GB RAM used (90%) and 2.7 GB swap in use (27%), plus root Btrfs root at (90%). That’s a pretty tight / heavy, what are you running or doing to push it that hard?
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