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Sorry for the daft question guys ( and ladies of course ), what may seem an obvious reason ( to some ) ................
Like having 2 separate desks in your office I suppose, one for your document trays, pen holders, type writer and the such. And the second one loaded with heaps of paperwork, magazines and dirty cups of coffee!

In the real world, it's a great idea as space is always limited. The more flat surfaces you have the better
But on a computer?

I've now been running Linux MX for a few months now, and very happily I may add. But still having not found the need to run a second desktop.
So my question is 'Why' ? Why the need to have somewhere else to put your stuff, when everything can be done on one desktop.

I need convincing ................ So what do you guys use the second desktop for ?



TURK

Moved to chat.

Please be mindful of your posting location.

With so many different options, I thought long and hard about where to put this .............. it seems I got it wrong!


TURK

Do you mean Two Workspaces?
Or, what do you mean by Two Desktops, EDIT as in Two separate computers?

Cheers!

Yes, sorry, I apologise ...............

As You suspected, I meant to say 'WorkSpaces' !

This is what comes from being a Windows user for over 30 years!



TURK

I suspected that - maybe, but I didn't use Windows much.
These people should know: viewtopic.php?t=80476

I occasionally use it, I suspect that it's a way to break-up, or organize your workflow.

And I recently discovered that you can slide (I forget exactly) different computer screens to a second monitor, so I guess you could watch a video on a monitor that was plugged into your laptop (maybe HDMI) and take notes or do whatever with another app. Again, I don't recall the "exact" steps, but once you're aware that it can be done, it's somewhat intuitive.

++EDIT My error, sliding the screen to a monitor is probably not considered a workspace.
Cheers!

Do you mean like this?



2³bit

Putting new paper in that printer seems like hell

TURK wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 12:39 am As You suspected, I meant to say 'WorkSpaces' ! :frown:

This is what comes from being a Windows user for over 30 years!

As a Windows user, you can try running Desktops, which is a Sysinternals tool that emulates a feature that most Linux desktop distros have had for about 25 years.

When monitors were only about 12" diagonally and each one weighed 30 pounds or more, dual-monitor setups were bulky, expensive, and inconvenient, especially for broke college students working on Linux as a hobby in their tiny, cramped dorm rooms they're sharing with one to three other people.

Before laptops got thin and carrying around two at the same time became easy, it made sense to have multiple screens on a single workstation: one for work stuff, a second one with an app that remotes to your home network over RDP or VNC. This way you could still read penny-arcade.com at work over SSH without pinging the domain-filtering corporate firewalls, and switching back to spreadsheets was just a matter of a boss key like the good old days.

I honestly don't use multiple workspaces on Linux much. I think the era of having 4 idle workspaces by default is long over, especially now that most computer displays are obscenely wide. It made more sense before Chrome came on the scene and tried to become the everything application. You used to need different software for each different task you wanted to accomplish. Unless you used Emacs, maybe. I typically set two workspaces and almost entirely forget about the second one. When I was a Windows user I ended up relying on Desktops far more than I do on Linux now. Part of that is cleanly separating my work machine from my personal machine, part of that is that I don't really think about having, say, e-mail in a different workspace anymore like I do with a multi-monitor setup. But having multiple workspaces has been such a go-to feature of "Linux does what Windows don't" (right up until 2019) that seeing a Linux distro that doesn't offer it out of the box is a little odd.

If you don't like it, don't use it. I rarely do. I just like knowing it's there if I need it.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 1:17 am Putting new paper in that printer seems like hell

Hyperbole aside, it's an illusion from the camera angle. It's changed since then, and is now under the desk.

Ah, here's a more recent pic.



2³bit