brent why do you prefer browsing in different workspaces
It's simply a means of organization. I could put all the applications that I use daily on a single desktop, piled on top of one another. While checking what's happening with my stocks, t would be very tedious to find the browser with the Windows VM, to take a look through my Ring doorbell to see who's coming when it alerts me to movement near the front door. But in my case, I can click on the 7th workspace and be instantly there.
To get to a terminal to check whether updates have been released, for instance, I simply click on the last workspace, and I'm there. If I hear a sound that means activity in my email, I just click on the first workspace from wherever I happen to be working.
So the 10 workspaces that I typically use on my daily-use laptop essentially represent tasks that I deal with every day. In the image in my first message above, from left to right they represent email, finances, Spider solitaire, Shisen-sho, Mahjongg, Windows 10 VM, utility browser (e.g., shopping, exploring), miscellaneous system utilities, and finally a terminal emulator.
From any one of those and its activity to any other one and it's activity takes a single mouse click. For the most part, no application ever covers up anther one. (Although multiple applications can be run in any workspace.
If you haven't already done so, I'd recommend that you add a workspace switcher to your panel, add a few workspaces to it, and experiment with them. I think you'd quickly find ways to improve your organization. If you ever wonder about it, I can even tell you how to add workspaces to a Windows 10 installation.
In my 7th Solus workspace, the one that has a Windows 10 VM in it, that VM has 5 Windows workspaces available. The first one contains my Nook e-book reader, and the second one my Ring Doorbell application. (Those are the two apps I use that aren't available in Linux.)
And if I'm reading a Lindsay Buroker adventure on Nook in Windows, and hear a notification that I've gotten an email, one mouse click is all it takes to switch to Thunderbird in Solus and check the email. When done, another mouse click takes me back to Nook in Windows, to the book I was reading. That's the joy of workspaces.
