[Pengwin]

Gnome 3 has all those shortcuts, albeit Workspaces are now in a single column, so you only have up and down navigating workspaces.

[mcjiggerlog]

I can't work without workspaces on a grid, but luckily there is a gnome shell plugin that works perfectly on 17.10 - https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/484/workspace-grid/

[fmoralesc]

You can configure gnome-shell to use static workspaces from the gnome-tweak-tool application as well.

[mcjiggerlog]

Ah yes - you'll want to set the number of spaces to static first.

[JoshMnem]

That's a terrible restriction for people who have many virtual desktops. I've used 10 in two rows for years (or 9 in xmonad) so that's my mental model of where everything is located.