In Windows 11 there’s a button on the taskbar next to the start button that lets you switch between multiple desktop environments. It seems like something that would probably be useful in theory, but I can’t think of any reason why I would want to use it. Is it actually useful? What do people use it for?

  • @BURN
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    111 year ago

    I use this regularly on a laptop, but almost never on a desktop.

    It’s really nice if you have multiple full screen apps you’re switching back and forth from them pretty regularly, ie IDE in one env, browser in another, both can be full screen and switched without minimizing the other.

    Multi Monitor setups often solve the same problem.

    • silly goose meekah
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      11 year ago

      How is this different from just alt-tabbing to a different Fullscreen application?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Hmm spatial awareness? Left is code right is docs and if you have any other windows they don’t break that?