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If open windows are bugging you, you can simply move to a new workspace, as you mention. There's a keyboard shortcut, so that's actually very easy to do. Gnome

If open windows are bugging you, you can simply move to a new workspace, as you mention. There's a keyboard shortcut, so that's actually very easy to do. Gnome is very different from more common desktop environments, but if you accept to try and work with it the way it's designed, it can be productive and enjoyable.

jghn 11mo ago
> you can simply move to a new workspace. Like the person to whom you're replying, I don't *want* another workspace, virtual desktop, or anything of the sort. Ever. So a system built around a model of "simply move to a new workspace" doesn't work for me. Period.
- joelthelion 11mo ago
  Then Gnome isn't for you. It's an opiniated desktop, you have to accept its way of doing things.
  - kentonv 11mo ago
    I don't use workspaces and I've been a happy gnome user for decades...
- t_mahmood 11mo ago
  Well, is it logical, if you buy an EV, and then complain it does not sound like a sports car?
torben-friis 11mo ago
Doesn’t that bother you? Honest question, as it feels “conceptually dirty”. There is something of “if the room is too messy don’t tidy it, just move to another room” in it that bothers me.
- skydhash 11mo ago
  You have to think of it like "This desk is busy with some work, let's go to a free desk". So I can have a workspace with my Email and IM clients, one with my music player, another for my leisure browsing, and two each with an editor and a browser for the programming projects I have open. I'm currently on i3 right now and I have 10 static workspaces (6 occupied): 1. Emacs frames (5 of them) 2. Browser 3. Terminal 4. Terminal (temp), but more often have calibre there, and other random gui tools. 6. Music player (cmus) 9. Password manager (keepass)
- fragmede 11mo ago
  You can tidy it up, but mentally it's that there’s a room for activity X and a different room for activity Y. It’s about this mess over here is unrelated to this mess over here.

jghn 11mo ago

> you can simply move to a new workspace. Like the person to whom you're replying, I don't *want* another workspace, virtual desktop, or anything of the sort. Ever. So a system built around a model of "simply move to a new workspace" doesn't work for me. Period.

joelthelion 11mo ago
Then Gnome isn't for you. It's an opiniated desktop, you have to accept its way of doing things.
- kentonv 11mo ago
  I don't use workspaces and I've been a happy gnome user for decades...
t_mahmood 11mo ago
Well, is it logical, if you buy an EV, and then complain it does not sound like a sports car?

torben-friis 11mo ago

Doesn’t that bother you? Honest question, as it feels “conceptually dirty”. There is something of “if the room is too messy don’t tidy it, just move to another room” in it that bothers me.

skydhash 11mo ago
You have to think of it like "This desk is busy with some work, let's go to a free desk". So I can have a workspace with my Email and IM clients, one with my music player, another for my leisure browsing, and two each with an editor and a browser for the programming projects I have open. I'm currently on i3 right now and I have 10 static workspaces (6 occupied): 1. Emacs frames (5 of them) 2. Browser 3. Terminal 4. Terminal (temp), but more often have calibre there, and other random gui tools. 6. Music player (cmus) 9. Password manager (keepass)
fragmede 11mo ago
You can tidy it up, but mentally it's that there’s a room for activity X and a different room for activity Y. It’s about this mess over here is unrelated to this mess over here.