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by emeraldd 3510 days ago
My biggest complaint about Windows, from a pure usability stand point, is the fact that I have yet to find anything close to a functional multi-desktop app. There used to be something as part of XP powertoys (it performed badly as I remember it) but I have yet too see anything since then. Ignoring most of the philosophical issues, that alone makes the platform a non-starter as my daily driver.

I tend to use desktops to organize tasks or task sets. (one for email, jira, time tracking. Another for the set the current ticket I'm working on: editor, browser, logs, query tool, and maybe others for incidentals that pop up: research, support questions etc...) Mutli-desktop has become my goto technique for off loading a large chunk of mental state.

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If by multi-desktop you means virtual desktops, then you are in luck. Virtual desktops are a built-in feature of windows 10 [1].

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/04/16/virtu...

Along with native multiple desktop support of Windows 10, there is a single portable exe by Sysintarnals called Desktops for multiple desktops feature.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/sysinternals/cc817881.as...

Windows 10 has multi-desktop built right in.
Well now, I hadn't seen that mentioned anywhere! Interesting ... I'll have to take another look at win10 then ...