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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 A little outdated but it was a chance to show him how to make stuff like that!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand the last panel

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Virtual desktops: KDE / Wikipedia / Gnome

TLDR: If you don't want your desktop to be a mess, you can spawn applications in different virtual desktops, and switch between them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And macos since much earlier!

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gnome 2 had virtual desktops

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

3rd party for win95 had it, maybe even 3.11

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the correction!

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And what does the bottom image show?

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

A virtual desktop switcher, it allow you to quickly switch between virtual desktops

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 workspaces, let's say you have one 1920x1080 monitor but a virtual screen of 3840x1080

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have one 5120x1440 monitor, do I win?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jokes on you, I have two monitors and 9 workspaces (I don't know how you call these)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Virtual desktops/workspaces.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3 monitors (another one to come) and 10 default + 4 custom workspaces

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just gonna slide in here with 2 monitors each with 10 unique workspaces. Using a WM, its often just nicer to have each application have its own workspace.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, for me KeePassXC, spotify-tui, Discord (aka. a Firefox instance with canary.discord.com) and games have their own instance. IDEs etc. are on the main screen, so WS 2, and Firefox on WS 3 at the right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

So proud of him!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have one monitor (laptop screen) and 8 workspaces

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The format is over 2 years old and kind of dead as far as my knowledge goes...