Unity and Gnome3 have virtual desktops, just not the best functionality. You either do a key-combo or move the mouse to a hot corner, pause, then it shows a so

Unity and Gnome3 have virtual desktops, just not the best functionality. You either do a key-combo or move the mouse to a hot corner, pause, then it shows a sort of tiled or thumbnailed view of each open application as if it was on it's own desktop, and you click on the one you want and it then fills the screen. Instead of behaving like multiple desktops, it's more like a slow way to maximize the application window you want to use next It's almost like the Windows Alt-Tab/Alt-Shift-Tab maneuver to scroll through to the next or previous open application windows. What I was describing in XFCE is how you switch workspaces.