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'Windows 9' LEAK: Microsoft's playing catchup with Linux

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Re: Says more about Reg readers

I use it quite often in Linux, mainly when I'm working on several projects at once - I can have an IDE along with terminal/browser/etc windows pointing at the relevant places for each job I'm doing, without having to close/re-open things, and keeping irrelevant stuff still open because I don't want to re-start it, as I switch between jobs.

But imagine the disk thrashing and CPU burning that would happen if you tried that with Windows and VS. I tried the 3rd party virtual desktop hacks on Windows, but Windows just can't handle having more than one "work session" at a time - that's a fact I've painfully learned over the years.

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