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by adamnew123456 1973 days ago
I'm not sure fad is the right descriptor here. Unix WMs have had virtual desktops since the 90s (80s?), MacOS got them around 2006 and Windows in 2015.

Use by the non-initiated may not be that high, but that shouldn't be surprising given that user education is a very scarce resource and it's being spent elsewhere.
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andi999 1973 days ago
I meant as a default.
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pbhjpbhj 1973 days ago
Aren't document tabs, eg browser tabs, an app-confined version of multiple desktops. The idea behind their are virtual screens of content you can switch between.

Every KDE I've installed (Slackware, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Fedora), to my recollection defaulted to multiple desktops.

I'm so happy Win10 has virtual desktops as in moving from Linux to MS Windows - mandated by my workplace - that was a massive pain point.

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