Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7?

First time accepted submitter asadsalm writes "MacOS has spaces. Windows had no out-of-the-box utility for multiple virtual desktops. Which Multiple Desktop Tool should one use on Windows 7? Sysinternals Desktops, mdesktop, Dexpot, Virtual Dimension, VirtuaWin, Finestra are the few options that I have shortlisted." So, if you use both Windows and multiple desktops, what's your favorite method?

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Linux

[Omnifarious]

That's my answer. Give up the WIndows.

Of course, it's not an answer you likely want to hear. Unfortunately, I don't have any answers you'd want to hear.

Re:Linux

[Omnifarious]

Because sometimes answers people don't want to hear are still the right answers.

Re:Linux

[Omnifarious]

And why Windows users have such reputations for being incredulous noobs. I mean, why else do you think so much blatant malware and scamware is made for that platform anyway?

Re:Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean like NeXT?

Re:Linux

[Omnifarious]

Maybe they should stop doing that and helping to make the world a worse place. Or maybe they should run their windows in a VM.

Re:Linux

[Omnifarious]

I liken someone who insists on continuing to use Windows to someone who insists on their toy without caring that someone in some third world country was worked to death to make it. Using software like that only encourages the people who make it to make more of the same kind of thing. It's pollution that says that robbing people of freedom is just fine as long as the toy is shiny enough.

Re:Linux

[Omnifarious]

If RedHat or Ubuntu start acting against my best interests I'm not nearly so trapped into my choices. I could, relatively easily, switch all of stuff I use at home to Debian if I so chose.

The incentives for companies that make close-source software are all wrong. Their every incentive is to act against the interests of their customers in important and major ways. Network effects then conspire to make the choices of all of those duped customers make life more difficult for me as they expect me to do things in a way that's compatible with the software that traps them into the cycle.

Yes, large multinationals have a strong tendency to act against the interests of their customers and the public. And that's why I prefer to do business with large multinationals that have an incentive structure that inspires my trust.

Not a troll, IMHO, just "outside th box" thinking.

[IBitOBear]

I agree whole-heartedly about using linux.

When "stuck with" windows I often acheive multiple windows desktops by running multiple QEMU windows instances.

I also use Wine.

Both of these solutions often mean that when a windows app fails catostrophically I can just kill the whole windows instance at once wihtout interfeering with my other work.

You can do the same thing with VmWare hardware partitioning.

I also look to migrate away from windows one application at a time.

So... not a troll.