Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now Date: 12 Nov 2025 04:03:04 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <10ev4nj$loo6$2@dont-email.me> <10f03ru$vfa4$1@dont-email.me> <10f0h2c$136a1$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mg+Uql2FrBePMEmwcSrNxgtVcSUAFo0z2EEjHaODPpDwKACsia Cancel-Lock: sha1:gqie/5MJd7oCigWNWJANo55NT9w= sha256:AuW0y279s8Uymj/2QT6FiMMUj/c0Hie8KpbHy9ixbJ4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77358 On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:32:28 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:47:08 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > >> Nearly all the desktops I have seen aside from a few special >> distributions to show off the DE usually KDE, duplicate the Windows >> layout ... > > Remember that Linux, and the *nix world generally, were doing multiple > desktops long before Apple and Microsoft discovered the idea. If there was one thing I sorely missed on Windows that was it. There was a third party attempt that sort of worked but iirc Win10 was the first time MS had something semi-useful. MS has always been strange. 2000 had tab completion -- if you hacked the registry. I think you had to add the key instead of just enabling it, meaning you had to know the secret password. I use the Vim plugin/extension for Visual Studio and VS Code. MS can design a fairly nice IDE but their editors have usually sucked.