Well I got a bit of money for Christmas (and my Birthday) and I'm looking to improve the layout of my desk for productivity reasons. I'm currently in student accommodation so I can't physically move the desk or the shelves (everything is screwed and glued). I'm an astrophysics student and do some game dev on the side. My time is spent probably 50/50 paper/computer. When I'm working on paper, my laptop moves off the desk and I shuffle the keyboard up, this gives me lots of room, however I'm not finding the computer arrangement great especially after having been used to a proper dual screen setup in the past.
Here's my desk:
I'm looking at spending the money I got on a second screen and vesa mounting system for the two. Possibly something like this:
or this: if I went vertical.
The thing is, I don't know what to go for. I was thinking of getting something with more pixels than the normal 1080p as it's useful to be able to have a 1080p window + stuff. I've also thought of getting say a qhd (or an ultrawide) and turning my current monitor portrait for coding. I just really don't know. What do you guys think about improving this layout?
Cheers!