Those features predate GNOME 3 by decades, and aren't unique to it at all. Virtual desktops were in CDE back in the 1980s, and window snapping was in KDE 2 I t

Those features predate GNOME 3 by decades, and aren't unique to it at all. Virtual desktops were in CDE back in the 1980s, and window snapping was in KDE 2 I think, back in the late 1990s.