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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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 A little outdated but it was a chance to show him how to make stuff like that!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] 33 points 10 months ago

I don't understand the last panel

[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

And macos since much earlier!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

Gnome 2 had virtual desktops

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

3rd party for win95 had it, maybe even 3.11

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

Edit: I was wrong.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the correction!

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

And what does the bottom image show?

[-] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Virtual desktops/workspaces.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

So proud of him!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I have one monitor (laptop screen) and 8 workspaces

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

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