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I've been on Ubuntu for a couple of years now. I would never go back to Windows or even OSX. I love Gnome's workspace switcher. OSX's workspace switcher felt

I've been on Ubuntu for a couple of years now. I would never go back to Windows or even OSX. I love Gnome's workspace switcher. OSX's workspace switcher felt tedious and slow by comparison. With Ubuntu/Gnome, I just Ctrl+Alt+arrow-key to move between workspaces and it's so smooth/quick. It's great for writing/debugging code; I have one workspace with the app/site I'm building, one with my source code and one with the terminal for launching/killing processes. Sometimes I use the fourth workspace to do CPU profiling when doing performance testing. It's nice that there are just four workspaces - One in each corner, then I can switch to any one of them with a single hotkey without even having to think - I can instantly bring up the one I want in a fraction of a second. It really adds up. Windows was terrible. I had to move the mouse and click several times every time I wanted to test a change I made to the code. I can't believe I was doing that just a few years ago.

simosx 10y ago
Ubuntu can do the workspace switching as well, but also other window managers. Step 1. Enable workspaces in Settings->Appearance->Behavior->Enable workspaces You can see the four workspaces on the Launcher, near the Trash icon. Step 2. Add shortcuts to switch to these workspaces in Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Navigation You set a shortcut for "Switch to workspace 1" (up to 4). Ideally, you would set these to "Alt+1", "Alt+2", etc so that a single shortcut takes you as once to a specific workspace.
fb03 10y ago
Same here. Ubuntu with quick desktop switching is a breeze to develop, Windows feels cumbersome compared to it, needs way more keystrokes and mouse gymnastics to get the work done ;-) My Windows usage is restricted to gaming and music production. Sadly, getting low latency audio on Linux requires lots of fiddling, and even if I do get it running, I'm still going to miss the tons of windows-only audio plugins.
indeyets 10y ago
macOS: Ctrl-left/Ctrl-right switches workspaces for me. Four-finger swipe does the same. what am I doing wrong?

simosx 10y ago

Ubuntu can do the workspace switching as well, but also other window managers. Step 1. Enable workspaces in Settings->Appearance->Behavior->Enable workspaces You can see the four workspaces on the Launcher, near the Trash icon. Step 2. Add shortcuts to switch to these workspaces in Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Navigation You set a shortcut for "Switch to workspace 1" (up to 4). Ideally, you would set these to "Alt+1", "Alt+2", etc so that a single shortcut takes you as once to a specific workspace.

fb03 10y ago

Same here. Ubuntu with quick desktop switching is a breeze to develop, Windows feels cumbersome compared to it, needs way more keystrokes and mouse gymnastics to get the work done ;-) My Windows usage is restricted to gaming and music production. Sadly, getting low latency audio on Linux requires lots of fiddling, and even if I do get it running, I'm still going to miss the tons of windows-only audio plugins.

indeyets 10y ago

macOS: Ctrl-left/Ctrl-right switches workspaces for me. Four-finger swipe does the same. what am I doing wrong?