I also use one monitor for a similar combination of reasons. The ergonomics are better and work flows are similar on just my laptop compared to my large everyday monitor at work.
Many of my coworkers use multiple monitors as a way to "deal" with sprawl, except it really just facilitates sprawl. Using just one makes me be more disciplined with regards to floating and extra 4 dozen browser tabs. Multiple workspaces with their own separate reasons for existing help preserve context when switching out of a task is necessary, and again makes it easier to prune terminal and browser tabs because they exist to a particular end.
Multiple desktops and good window management are a must. Spectacle on OSX or a tiling WM on linux (not familiar with windows) are a must. Toss in tmux (obviously not mandatory) and it's great. It takes discipline, and a bit of up front work, but once you have your patterns it's much quicker to find information, tabs, terminals, etc and then toss out three chrome windows with 50 tabs and 8 terminal shells.
I do ops, and so might have to juggle a larger variety of contexts than some devs who spend 90% of their time in an IDE, but maybe not.
There is a good case to be made for two monitors if you spend extensive periods of time working with, e.g. wireshark or similar, but that's the only case I've come across in almost a decade where two monitors > one (large) monitor + good wm w/ multiple desktops.
Many of my coworkers use multiple monitors as a way to "deal" with sprawl, except it really just facilitates sprawl. Using just one makes me be more disciplined with regards to floating and extra 4 dozen browser tabs. Multiple workspaces with their own separate reasons for existing help preserve context when switching out of a task is necessary, and again makes it easier to prune terminal and browser tabs because they exist to a particular end.
Multiple desktops and good window management are a must. Spectacle on OSX or a tiling WM on linux (not familiar with windows) are a must. Toss in tmux (obviously not mandatory) and it's great. It takes discipline, and a bit of up front work, but once you have your patterns it's much quicker to find information, tabs, terminals, etc and then toss out three chrome windows with 50 tabs and 8 terminal shells.
I do ops, and so might have to juggle a larger variety of contexts than some devs who spend 90% of their time in an IDE, but maybe not.
There is a good case to be made for two monitors if you spend extensive periods of time working with, e.g. wireshark or similar, but that's the only case I've come across in almost a decade where two monitors > one (large) monitor + good wm w/ multiple desktops.