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Windows 10 virtual desktops

Hey guys. Just upgraded my surface to windows 10. What is the point in the continuum/vital desktops? Are they just like Alt+tab?

Also would appreciate any helpful tips people have found out about windows 10  :)
Cheers guys!

Its a good way of keeping your work/gaming environment seperate, I used to use the feature on my macbook, but I have not bothered on my PC as it is only really used for gaming.
Have a good look at the privacy settings and the auto update settings, other than that, I think Win 10 is the best PC operating system I have used (and i have been around since DOS)

hmmm. I still dont see the point. why not just have it all on one desktop?

Much quicker than alt+tabbing. Imagine you only have a single monitor and you need to do some graphical editing work/programming/whatever. Now you might have two emails from your client that need to reference quiet frequently. And you also have a few reference images. That's 3-5 windows open at the same time. Now with alt+tab you'd be cycling through them all the time. With workspaces...erm, I mean... "virtual desktops" you can assign the emails to one desktop, your main window to one and your reference pictures to another. Especially in linux, you usually have the workspaces organized as a "center" with "left","right","top","bottom" around it. Some weird people prefer a "looping" set-up but that's just wrong. So you quickly need to find a detail in a reference picture? Ctrl+alt+Rarrow. Need to check the emails? Ctrl+alt+UpArrow ...etc

so its like alt tabbing that you can direct straight to a particular window?

More like alt-tabbing to a particular group of windows, but yeah, in principle that describes it.

I suppose it depends on your desktop, here is my work desktop, I dont need all this crap when im at home!

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