Linux Workspaces | A Feature So Good Microsoft is Copying It

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1. In the year of 2000, I used Linux Mandrake KDE and GNOME, it has that feature..^^

2. How is it different from just have alt tab behavior?

3. Switch to Fedora, dude 🙂

4. I need some direction on where to go to fix a different (but related problem) to this Linux workspaces thing.
   It's about the apps themselves. The underlying idea for workspaces is "Set it and forget it and be free now to focus on bigger things" because now the system itself will do the remembering for you. So, with apps, I want that same "Set it and forget it" thing going on too. For example – When I open up an app and I place its window in a certain portion of the screen and then I re-size that window to my preference. Later, I'll shut down and still later, reboot the system. But now I've got to go through the same screen layout adjusting crap all over again with the apps before I actually start to use them. My system seems to not have any memory of how I left things when I shut down. If I could get that cleared up — and then use it with this workspaces thing, it would be awesome.

5. When i see the windows 11 showing this off i laught

6. Why Workspaces or Virtual Desktops sucks imo is that they don't offer separate sets of desktop shortcuts or separate apps on the taskbar.
   99% of people don't run out of space anyway also I find it easier to click on the app in the taskbar and it opens than use 3 key shortcut to switch between desktops ( since it takes both hands if you're multitasking with lots of mouse movement it's simply not comfortable and not efficient, talking about Windows 11 here, ofc you can use AHK script for a different shortcut or mouse/kb macro but it will interfere with other apps ).

   W11 even doesn't do it like 6:44 … When you come back the game is minimzed, Alt+Tab is still better in W11 😀

7. What os is this?

8. I still have no idea what linux build I should use

9. And how easy is it to split the screen up like you can in w11 AND WHAT TF IS TAKING SO LONG!!

10. Weird that windows would think windows in windows should be its operating design

11. I really wish the launchers were different on workspaces for gnome, so far i haven't found a way to change it

12. Linux relies too much on geeks having great memories. Those of us who don't and hate using 3 combination hot keys prefer to make the Workspaces visible so we can just click on them to move between them. That is possible in Lubuntu and also in Mint. Probably a way to do it in most if not all distros. What I want to know is whether there is some way to make FireFox separate in each workspace so I can set different start pages for each workspace. I haven't found a way to do that, yet, so I guess I need to find 3 more browsers that actually work. I use Chrome in one workspace and usually use FireFox for everything else — but want different start pages in different workspaces.

13. As a new linux user, this seems super helpful

14. So now multiple workspaces where invented in linux ?, and microsoft "copy" the idea from there ?, go out and search on google 5 minutes before puking bullshit like that.

15. I have Arch on my Desktop and recently installed it on my laptop which is getting up there in age to squeeze out as much performance as I can. I only installed i3 (no desktop environment and no display manager). It's much easier working on my 15" laptop screen when I can switch between windows, move windows to new workspaces, switch between workspaces, and resize windows with just some keystrokes. Doing these kinds of things with a trackpad is a huge pain and wastes time. Using vim to edit code for school projects or my own personal projects let's me avoid the trackpad even more. It makes the concept of multiple monitors on a desktop seem unnecessary. It's too easy to get disorganized when all of your windows are on the same workspace.

16. I didn't know how to use workspaces and turned off them as soon as I installed any linux os. Really dumb of me to ignore them rather learning to use them. Fantastic vid Chris! Now on the mission to master this feature.

17. I love workspaces. The title of your video should've said "in KDE" though. I doubt all of these settings or even windows are in Xfce.

18. i swear macOS has had multiple desktops for a long time too

19. Snoochie boochies!

20. Would be cool to have workspaces connected to cloud workspaces like aws workspace. Then you could switch between local and cloud workspaces.

21. Amiga had this already in the 80s. It's interesting that it took this long for it to come to Windows. On OS X it was introduced with Leopard in 2007.

22. Love workspaces like you showed great for gaming if you get stuck in game change workspace google solution and back to game. I have been using them since before I switched to Linux I used a program which I forget the name of in Windows to do this

23. Back over 13 years ago I completely bloated my super optimised Ubuntu studio with Beryl/Compiz just so I could spin those pretty cool cubes! Waste of resources but looked so cool ha

24. I guess for gaming, but unless it saves it on exiting and then rebooting, I probably wouldn't get hooked on it.

25. I was going to say that this feature looks amazing for Gaming (specifically, streaming on Twitch), but then you effectively covered that. Although, if these “tiling window managers” are what I think they are, from hearing the name, then that might be even better. Being able to see chat without blinding yourself to what's happening in-game, on a single monitor, sounds really useful. But that's only if the thing is what I suspect it is…

26. If you love workspaces you'll love KDE Activities.

27. I have seen this feature,but never really understood it,until now,or seen how it could be useful, until now,thank you.

28. In the single-monitor low-resolution days of the 90s, I found virtual desktops to be a huge help on Windows. There was a bunch of really good choices in those days, much better than the Apple approach of 'Here it is, like it or leave it.'
    I haven't needed it since I started using 2-3 monitors with higher resolutions. If there's a solution out there which will allow a custom set of app icons for each desktop which crucially will survive a reboot, please reply—that would interest me.

29. Chris, you can search about sysimternals suit, made by Mark Russinovich. There are one program called Desktops, works on Win XP an 7. This suit is amazing!

30. i dont know what seperate workspace for until i discover porn… watching it using JWM linux

31. I was using Fvwm in 1995, and yep, it had virtual desktops. It's what the V stands for. Same with olvwm and tvwm, which is fvwm's direct ancestor.

32. Amazing video

33. Win 10 Workspaces suck balls. Not only using it steals focus which doesn't bring it back after switching back, hotkeys require nav cluster and require you to press 3 buttons.

    Seriously? And you can't change them (unless using autohotkeyaroos workarounds).

    I stopped using it because I thought it was unintuitive, and then moved to Linux, Xfce, and it works just as you would expect it.

34. i do have workspaces in mint and use it a lot with the cube, but dual monitors are better as you can read from both monitors at once

35. Really? Filthy Alliance? unsubscribe 😜

36. I use dual monitors at work (unfortunately on Windows 10) and can have 2 or 3 workspaces open depending on the day as some programs have 1/2 a dozen windows and are buggy AF to launch

37. The oldies will remember Virtual Terminals long before the desktop. This is still available today under Ctl-Alt-Fn or Alt-Fn (if you are already in terminal mode). This is very useful if the desktop goes slow or freezes, and is very useful to compare to log files that have different timestamp, ie diff will not do the job.

38. Thanks this is information that I can use today.

39. Linux has had virtual desktops as long as it has had X Windows, which has supported virtual desktops since the eighties. So, as far as Linux is concerned, we're talking mid nineties.

40. do a 3 month gnome 3 challenge this should help https://youtu.be/KSQxPnKwNc8

41. Nice video, Chris! Being using workspaces for many years and I've never needed multiple monitors for this awesome feature (I use five workspaces and for me it's perfect). I've used it in the past on Mac osx too and was amazing for audio editing work. The windows 10 implementation of workspaces it's absolutely horrible. (In Plasma you can click and hold the tittle bar of a window and then with the "switch to workspace X" shortcut, switch to that workspace with the window included, for me that's so convenient! )

42. I think the virtual desktops/ work-spaces feature was in macos about 15 years ago. Have you discovered the "Activities" system on KDE yet ?

43. GPT Linux ext and Windows NTFS on 1 SSD/HDD

44. If you think virtual desktops are cool you should check out Compiz fusion.

45. Apples had it forever as will. Windows 10 has incorporated it but not very will so I actually use a program called better desktop tool instead. I'm more of a mouse person so I set it up as hot corners.

46. Also, there CTRL-ALT-F1 thru F6 for a whole new terminal login. To get back to the windows manager CTRL-ALT-F7. This is what sold me on Linux before all the window manager craze. I could be logged in tty1 and doing a long compile of the kernel, then switch to tty2 (CTRL-ALT-F2) to do some file management or some other thing while the compile is going on….

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