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My little brother came up with this meme. A little outdated but it was a chance to show him how to make stuff like that!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Windows has had them since 10 (and obviously far earlier via 3rd party).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, 15 years after everyone else (hence 3rd party).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And macos since much earlier!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Windows 10 had the feature since 2015 (first W10 release) that would be at least 3 years after Gnome; Earliest mention I can find and that's worst case scenario for Gnome.

As for KDE Plasma it had those since at least 4.2.0, Plasma 4.2.0 announcment that version was released in 2009.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know much about Gnome's history, that's why I used the earliest mention I could find.

KDE Plasma may have had it before 4.2.0 too, but I cannot find KDE 3, 2, or 1 announcements. Most likely because of the name change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

KDE had them back in the 90s. They had to - virtual desktops were a feature of pretty much any window manager more complicated than TWM. They'd have been laughed at if they didn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No they had to wait specifically for Plasma 420 for the most important feature. Look forward to Plasma 6.9 as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

3rd party for win95 had it, maybe even 3.11

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think they removed the native ones on 11. Correct me if I am wrong though...

Edit: I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not on 11 yet, but Google says it's still there by default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the correction!