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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