[ Thanks to Prashanth for this link.
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“The thought about the content of this post occurred to
me yesterday when surfing the web as normal. (Interestingly enough,
I forgot about it until this afternoon.) It started with Mozilla
Firefox crashing. I feel like although with computer-related things
I’m a bit more flexible and willing to change (compared to average
users) when better software alternatives come around, with some
things I just stick too much to what I know, often to my own
detriment. Follow the jump to find out exactly what I mean.“Take virtual desktops. The idea of virtual desktops originated
on UNIX (and soon after that GNU, and still later Linux) WMs in the
late 1980s. The oldest surviving WMs, including TWM and FVWM
(developed around 1990), have virtual desktops (6 by default). Yet,
it took until 2000 for Apple to incorporate the idea into Mac OS,
and Microsoft Windows still doesn’t have the capability (though it
could be used for a brief time in Microsoft Windows XP through
Microsoft PowerToys, which anyway never became a core component of
the OS).”