My Gnome Workspace Tips

I remember having a friend who was using a MacOS and was not even using a shortcut for focusing/opening the app launcher, it was so frustrating to watch him clicking stuff. :D

Why jumble everything together into just one workspace? You can allocate one workspace to email, another to a web browser, yet another to programming one project, and yet another still to maintenance of buggy software.

I normally have six workspaces on the go. And they are generally full of app windows and xterms.

If you're cooking a bunch of separate dishes for a dinner party, would you want all your preparation ingredients mixed all together in just one area, or would you allocate one workbench for making the soup, another for making the dessert, and another still for making the main course? Wouldn't it be better to have as many workbenches as you desire to make your work-style cleaner and easier?

Some of us have been doing this for years. It's the main reason I have always felt claustrophobic in Windows in the past, though Windows seems to be getting away (finally!) from its NIH mindset and introducing lots of new-fangled Unix stuff like 'sudo' and 'Workspaces' in recent years.

So, anyway "Welcome to the Brave new World of Workspaces"!

(PS. I just looked and for some reason I have allocated 7 workspaces on this machine rather than my usual 6. Dunno why, but why worry? The more the merrier.)